The Women In Color Project, however, is fraught with various performance risks.

In an effort to remain an experimental theater group, Chang and Bullock did not go through common casting.

Instead, their open casting call brought them a largely underclass, mostly inexperienced troupe.

The directors also have student-writers acting in their own plays.

“While the writing is not necessarily not as good because it’s not as professional, it kept getting revised,” said Julia H. Fawcett ’04, Women In Color writer, actor and producer.

For production help, Women In Color teamed with the Athena Theater Group, an all-women’s production company of which Fawcett is president. Although the show is a source of pride for both groups, the show has been short-handed.

“There is a dearth of tech people at Harvard, and there are even fewer women who do tech,” Julia Reischel ’04, Athena producer said. “I have had to teach people from scratch.”

There’s also the concern of women-theater-overload. Women In Color and the Vagina Monologues both share a theater (the Agassiz), a production company (Athena) and the same weekend (Feb. 15-17).

Shawn D. Parker ’02, the only man in the Women In Color Project, does not think the estrogen will overwhelm the production’s success.

“At first, it was a little strange to come to rehearsal,” Parker said. Based on his experiences, he found himself wondering if any women were happy.

But he was quick to highlight that the Women in Color Project is in no way an attack on men.

“It does highlight some of the negative things that do exist about men but the message isn’t all grey.”

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