Amazons and Their Men

With this DC area premiere, the multi-Helen Hayes Award nominated Forum Theatre brings a blend of film and theater, art and war to Silver Spring.

Famous (and infamous) for glamorizing a fascist regime in her propaganda films, a young director seeks artistic vindication. In her latest film, she creates a fantasy world of drama and beauty—casting herself in the role of an Amazon Queen, tormented by love for the war-hero, Achilles. But in the real world, another war is brewing.

Set in Third Reich Germany and based loosely on the life of Leni Riefenstahl (director of Triumph of the Will), Amazons And Their Men chronicles the creation of Art—and the collapse of a society.

With Amazons, Forum Theatre explores the thin line between the world in front of the camera and the world beyond it—and what happens when the line vanishes. Does art bury the truth or expose it? Does it bind us together or tear us apart? And as artists, are we responsible only to our work or are we responsible for one another? In times of political and economic turmoil, both past and present, film might seem superfluous or theater might seem extravagant. But Amazons suggests that artists are more important than ever—and that the process of creation is both empowering and perilous.

by Jordan Harrison
directed by Michael Dove and Elissa Goetschius

Featuring Daniel Eichner (Angels in America), Laura C. Harris (26 Miles), Jay Saunders (Full Circle), and Jjana Valentiner (Kid Simple).