Freedom of speech

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Voice Star Eliza Jane Schneider Brings Her Award-Winning Play, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, to Sweden and Norway to Celebrate the Launch of Her International Podcast

Gothenburg, Sweden & Oslo, Norway – You’ve heard her voice before, but never like this! 

Eliza Jane Schneider: activist, dialectologist, musician, playwright, and Hollywood voice actress best known for voicing the female population of the hit show SOUTH PARK, will perform her one-woman play FREEDOM OF SPEECH from August 31 through September 7, 2024 in Gothenburg, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.

Schneider will bring 34 of the 7,000 real interviews and opinions she collected over ten trips around the United States (and, subsequently, the world) to life!

The play’s Nordic debut celebrates the launch of Schneider’s brand new podcast by the same name, a sneak preview of which can be found at her Patreon.

9/7: Oslo, Norway at Salt:

Tickets for FREEDOM OF SPEECH Oslo
https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/747225

Venue: https://www.salted.no/home-english

8/31 and 9/1: Gothenburg, Sweden at 2lang:

Tickets for FREEDOM OF SPEECH shows in Gothenburg
https://www.gbgfringe.com/events/freedom-of-speech/

Venue: https://2lang.se/

FREEDOM OF SPEECH Podcast sneak preview:  

www.FOSplay.com
https://www.patreon.com/elizajaneschneider

From the heart of Portland, arguably America’s populist frontline, FREEDOM OF SPEECH raises the question: “What kind of revolution do the American people REALLY want?” 

More than just a play or podcast, FREEDOM OF SPEECH is an anthropological marvel – an unfettered look at American culture gathered through honest and open conversation, and a uniquely female brand of listening. It sets up a dialectic between two factions traditionally set up to fear and loathe one another, the “Red” and the “Blue,” questioning the roots of a polarity seemingly based in the American Civil War, that has become exponentially more pronounced and dangerous, and topically timely, during this US election year.

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“Eliza Jane Schneider—Anna Deavere Smith crossed with Amy Sedaris—uncannily channels some 30 real-life Americans and their crazy-quilt stories in her tour-de-force one-woman show Freedom of Speech…Schneider doesn’t so much act as literally summon each person right before your eyes.”
-Sean Kennedy, New York Magazine

“CAPTIVATING! A vivid aural photo album of America.” 
– Brian Scott Lipton, New York Post

“Ms. Schneider is a fine and funny mimic, capable of astonishing transformations. …her show, “Freedom of Speech,” was one of the (NYC International Fringe) festival’s most popular, drawing a hip, young crowd with her irreverent, confessional personality.”
 – Bruce Weber, The New York Times

“If Lily Tomlin and Anna Deavere Smith were to merge their talents, the result might be something like Eliza Jane Schneider’s Freedom of Speech, a dramatic tour of America and also a tour de force… A wondrous harmony of American voices pouring from a one-woman choir.”
-Adam Feldman, Time-Out New York and President, New York Drama Critics’ Circle

“VIRTUOSIC! Schneider’s everymen and everywomen are opinionated, touching, and amazingly diverse. A vivid oral history of American life. The most stunning moment of the show, when Schneider averts the attack of a vicious homeless man with an operatic aria, is pure poetry, a soaring metaphoric counterpoint to the play’s recurrent themes of human desperation and the redemptive powers of art”
– Kathleen Foley, L.A. Times