Travel back to 1902 with a young female reporter to the Women’s Ward of the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Iowa, where you’ll meet Minnie Wright, serving a life sentence for the murder of her abusive husband. Combining the distance of history with emotional immediacy, Sometimes I Sing indicts the systems that still keep battered women in abusive environments, even today.

For adults and high school audiences.

Sometimes I Sing has been performed at:

• The Provincetown Playhouse at New York University

• The International Conference on American Theater and Drama in Seville, Spain

• The National Storytelling Festival

• The International Conference on American Drama

• The Mariposa Storytelling Festival

• Georgia College and State University

• The University of Georgia

• The University of Missouri

AUDIENCE QUOTES

“A seamless weaving of history, hardship, suffering, redemption.”
– Mary Kay Blakely, contributing editor to Ms. magazine

“Sometimes I Sing is a theatrical tour de force.”
– Patricia L. Bryan, author of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland

“Milbre Burch will hold you spellbound in Sometimes I Sing.”
– Bill Clark, Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune

“Thank you for your work on behalf of our friends and neighbors who continue to suffer in the shackles of violence.”
– Heather Harlan, Phoenix Programs, Columbia, Missouri