Boston play ‘gives equal weight to stories’ of notorious female fugitive and daughter of policeman she killed
Summary
A new play called *The Getaway Driver* opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, telling the story of Katherine Ann Power, who was a fugitive for 23 years after participating in a 1970 robbery where a police officer was killed. The play also shares the perspective of Clare Schroeder, the daughter of the officer who was shot, offering both sides of the story.Key Facts
- Katherine Ann Power was on the run from the FBI from 1970 to 1993, the longest for any woman in U.S. history.
- Power was involved in a robbery and the theft of weapons from a National Guard armory; a police officer was killed during the robbery.
- The play *The Getaway Driver* opens on October 29 at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- The play highlights both Power’s story and Clare Schroeder’s, who is the daughter of the murdered police officer.
- Power was a college student during the anti-Vietnam War protests and became part of an underground militant group.
- The story reflects on a turbulent time in American history with student protests and violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- The play was inspired in part by recent student protests and arrests in 2024 related to conflict in Israel and Gaza.
- The playwrights aimed to balance the narrative so the police officer’s family story is not overshadowed.
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