Tesha; An “Other” Look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, infamously known as Notorious RBG is a contemporary cultural icon and much can be accessed about her life and work. The second female ever to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, the Associate Justice's accomplishments and influence on gender equality are legendary.

Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Ginsburg taught at Rutgers University Law School and then at Columbia University, where she became its first female tenured professor. In law school, she was the first person to make both the Columbia and Harvard Law Review. She served as the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970’s. She argued and won 5 out of 6 landmark gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. She was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980 and named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. A champion for equality, she continued to argue for gender equality in cases such as United States v. Virginia. She died September 18, 2020 due to complications from metastatic pancreas cancer.
So....what isn't there to know about the extraordinary contribution and life of RBG?

Borrowing from her documented life story, playwright and actress, Juliette Regnier narrows the broad scope of Justice Ginsburg’s astonishing life and imagines her right here. Right now. If we could sit in her company, what would she say? Tesha; An "Other" Look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg, set during Aninut, (the time and space between death and burial in the Jewish Tradition), Ms. Regnier, as RBG takes us through forearm planks, The Taj Mahal, Marty’s casseroles, baton twirling, Harvard Law School, the passion of Dvorak, The United States Constitution, and the cost of gender inequality.

As she dresses for lunch with her husband Marty and other deceased guests such as Notorious B.I.G. and Justice Antonin Scalia, she revisits time; the ‘50’s, the ‘70’s, the ‘90’s, and thoughtfully extemporizes on the conditions of those eras and their influences. She confides in us her experiences in marriage, friendship, career, the law, religion, the opera, muses on the realities of time and takes aim at the rippling harm of unconscious gender bias.

This intimate one-woman portrayal of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is ultimately about time - the maddeningly slow evolution of civilization, liminal time, 1933-2023, times of unrest and upheaval, and seizing the right time to midwife and foster change.