Material Witness is "rowdy and playful, displaying an enormous sense of energy, strength and good will.  Yet its subject is dead serious: the physical abuse of indigenous women in the United States and Canada."

~ Anita Gates, The New York Times

"rollicking humor...a powerful link to history"

-The New York Times

"an example of what theater should be: challenging artistic work that raises relevant questions...concretely important art"

-Off Off Online

Director: Muriel Miguel

Assistant Director: Sid Bobb

Choreographer: Penny Couchie

Scenographer: Karmenlara Ely

Scenic Design: Soni Moreno

Spiderwoman Theater was founded in 1976, when Muriel Miguel gathered together a diverse company of women which included both of her sisters. They were of varying ages, races, sexual orientation, and worldview. The collective sprang out of the feminist movement of the 1970s and the disillusionment with the treatment of women in radical political movements of the time. They questioned gender roles, cultural stereotypes, and sexual and economic oppression. They took on issues of sexism, racism, classism, and the violence in women’s lives. Their weaving of humor with popular culture and personal histories along with their sometimes shocking style excited the hearts and spirits of the women (and sometimes the men) in their audiences, in the United States, Canada and all over the world. Visit their website: http://www.spiderwomantheater.org/index.htm