Building the Wall book cover, from playwright Roebert Schenkkan’s website.

By Millee Livingston
WILPF At-Large Member

A few WILPF at-large members in the Auburn, CA, area produced a staged reading of the play Building the Wall on October 5-6, 2018. Building the Wall is a futuristic look at our immigration and detention center policies written by Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning playwright.  (See this longer description of the play).

When we found Schenkkan’s book of the same name online, we felt the need to produce this play for the greater Auburn, CA, area. There are many organizations and individuals in our conservative area that are working to help immigrants in detention centers in our towns. Though the play is fiction, set in 2019, it is happening now. The book was written in 2016 and may be purchased online.

This play might be of interest to our WILPF members working on immigration and civil rights. The performance was a benefit for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF), which provides legal services to immigrant families in detention centers.

The play was sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Sierra Foothills Unitarian Universalists.

For more information or questions, contact Millee Livingston at 530-887-1775 or milleelivingston@gmail.com.