We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and other individuals or groups across the USA to independently “flood the zone” with creativity, for Create to Liberate, Saturday, April 19, 2025.

Think of the following idea as a pilot light for the creative fire within you (if yours needs to be lit.)

Create to Liberate Idea No. 3

Soap operas often center around the personal lives, relationships and emotional struggles of their characters. Love, betrayal, family conflicts and secrets are common themes in soaps.

Also, soap opera episodes often end with cliffhangers, creating suspense and compelling viewers to tune in to the next episode to find out what happens next.

Does this not sound like Vladimir’s America??

Write a short soap opera script about the coup and present a staged reading of it in a public setting on April 19. Or stream it online.

Call it “Putin’s Place.”

Or, if you want to borrow from the rich repertoire of existing social theatre, choose to do a staged reading of one of these great works:

• “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1969 play explores the life of Henry David Thoreau and his act of civil disobedience against the Mexican-American War.
• “The Laramie Project” by Moisés Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project. This 2000 play addresses the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man and the impact on the community of Laramie, Wyoming.
• “Fires in the Mirror” by Anna Deavere Smith. This 1992 one-person play uses verbatim theater techniques to explore the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, New York.
• “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry: This classic play from 1959 delves into the struggles of an African American family in Chicago as they face racial discrimination and economic hardship.
• “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage: This 2015 play examines the lives of factory workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the impact of economic decline on their community. The play also won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

• See other ideas for creative resistance in the blue box on this page.

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