Dreaming Through History by Lizzie Olesker, Fall 1999 (Photo: Joel Carino, Masha Obolensky, Caroline Rossi) Sightlines developed Dreaming Through History with playwright Lizzie Olesker over the course of several workshops which culminated in a production. The play moves between four generations of one family, beginning on the Lower East Side with the great-grandparents, Eastern European Jews who immigrated to New York in 1919. The great-grandfather, a union organizer, walks the picket line while the great grandmother spends a lonely existence raising the children in the Catskills, where subsequent generations suffer from polluted ground water. Jewish history, formation of labor unions, and issues of toxic waste were explored.
	back to overview