{"id":418,"date":"2025-05-12T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2025-05-22T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:33:23","slug":"olive-stanton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/olive-stanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Stanton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; max-width: none; color: rgb(20, 20, 19);\"><span style=\"font-family: Raleway, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT<\/strong><br><\/span><font color=\"#141413\" face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"2\"><strong style=\"color: rgb(82, 101, 168); text-transform: uppercase; font-size: large;\">OLIVE STANTON<\/strong><\/font><\/p><\/span>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><p>Olive Stanton&nbsp;<\/p><p>1908 &#8211; unknown<\/p><\/span><p><\/p>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><p>Actress in <i>The Cradle Will Rock<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Written and Performed by: Hailey Barnson<\/p><\/span><p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Setting: New York, NY, 1937<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Olive is speaking to her sister Margot outside the Venice Theatre in New York City. She is trying to convince Margot that performing in <i>The Cradle Will Rock<\/i> is the right decision even if it means getting in trouble.<\/p>\n{&#8220;title&#8221;:&#8221;&#8221;,&#8221;content&#8221;:&#8221;<iframe width=\\\"100%\\\" height=\\\"300\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\" frameborder=\\\"no\\\" allow=\\\"autoplay\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2087422368%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-apxFL1Eyil8&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\\\"><\/iframe><div style=\\\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-17135768\\\" title=\\\"Performing History\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" style=\\\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\\\">Performing History<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-17135768\/olive-stanton-monologue\/s-apxFL1Eyil8\\\" title=\\\"Olive Stanton Monologue\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" style=\\\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\\\">Olive Stanton Monologue<\/a><\/div>&#8220;}\n\n\n\n\n<span style=\"color:#888888;\"><p>Life is always a struggle! There\u2019s never this straight line. I have to do this Margot! They can\u2019t take away what I love. They can\u2019t keep me silent. I don\u2019t care if I could get in trouble with the government, the people, or even lose my status in the actors union. Ever since I was a little girl I knew my path was to perform. Performing is my passion and I am not going to let them stop me. I\u2019ve heard it enough from you my whole life \u201cYou need something better,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ll never make it in that,\u201d \u201cHow are you going to raise a family with that kind of job?\u201d I\u2019m tired of it. I\u2019m tired of you telling me what to do and who to be. I listened to you for too long. But then I got this job. \u201cThe cradle will rock\u201d. My big moment, my break. I thought I finally made it. I was finally going to be somebody. And it gets taken away. Taken away by people who have no clue what they are talking about and you know it. Maybe you\u2019re right. Maybe I should give up and let them take the one thing I care about. Maybe it isn\u2019t worth the headache and the heartbreak anymore\u2026 No, I won&#8217;t let them do this. I can\u2019t and you are not going to stop me. This will be my moment. Everyone will remember this as the night Miss Olive Stanton stood up to her own government and performed the song they told her not to perform. They can\u2019t take away who I am and neither can you.<\/p><div><\/div><\/span><div><br><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/perry-bruskin\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Perry Bruskin\n<\/a>&nbsp;<span style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u2022&nbsp;<\/span>\n  \n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/martin-dies\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Martin Dies\n    <\/a>\n    <span style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<\/span>\n  \n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/hallie-flanagan-1935\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); text-align: center;\">\n      Hallie Flanagan (1935)\n    <\/a>\n    <span style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<\/span>\n  \n    <a href=\"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/hallie-flanagan-1939\/\" style=\"background-color: rgb(242, 243, 237); 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