Conspiracy of Silence: The Magdalene Laundries opens on April 28 and runs through May 15.
This powerful drama tells the true story of young women in Ireland being sent to work in laundries of Catholic Churches. In a conspiracy of silence even today, the Catholic Church refuses to admit that for the greater part of the 20th century, the Magdalene Sisters, an order of nuns in Ireland, misused and abused young women in their laundries. Many of the young women were brought to the convents by their fathers because of misbehaviors the fathers viewed as endangering their families’ good name. Once there, the girls were overworked, beaten, ill-fed, ill-clad, and ill-housed. They were kept as prisoners, somefor many years, abandoned by their families and forgotten by society, until a real estate deal brought to exposure the unmarked graves, and public outcry forced the closing of the convents and their highly lucrative laundries.Tickets are $25, $17 for students, seniors, and military.
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