Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out

Overview

Cordelia Frances Biddle’s Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out – a workshop production of a play with music – explores well-known and lesser-known ancient scripture stories through a contemporary, feminist lens.  Irreverent, often scathing, and full of crackling wit, the play offers a new, unapologetic vision of an old story. 

Monologues by a radicalized, time-travelling Eve, a nonbinary and initially defensive God, a pragmatic Ruth and angry Bathsheba build momentum and urgency. The women demand to be heard. A resentful Cain and his grieving mother bring human tragedy to the tale.

The cast of biblical women come together with Eve in Part II, when the women and their laments take center stage. As they confront the myths and personal histories that bind them, they begin to imagine a future in which they, and all women, control their own fates.

Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out is inspired by the novel of the same name. We envision a full stage production in future where Lot’s wife, Vashti, Delilah et al add their vital voices. 

 

About the Artist

Cordelia Frances Biddle is a feminist author and proud Philadelphian. Novels: Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out (2025), They Believed They Were Safe (2024) and its forthcoming sequel The River Was Waiting (2026), the Martha Beale series – The Conjurer, Deception’s Daughter, Without Fear, The Actress, Sins of Commission. Prior to her writing career, she was an actor in New York. www.CordeliaFrancesBiddle.net

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