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Boston play tells fugitive Katherine Power’s story alongside victim’s daughter
A new play in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gives space to two perspectives on a 1970 robbery: those of fugitive Katherine Power and Clare Schroeder, whose father, a police officer, was killed.
The Getaway Driver opens at Central Square Theater on 29 October.
Power was the getaway driver when a group robbed a Boston bank in 1970 after stealing weapons from a National Guard armoury.
During the robbery, one of the group shot the officer, and Power learned of the shooting over the radio.
She spent 23 years on the run from the FBI, from 1970 until 1993.
The play was written by Charlie Thurston and Deborah Salem Smith using testimony from both women.
It aims to give equal weight to their stories, including the Schroeder family’s perspective, which has often been missing from accounts of the case.
The production was also inspired by student arrests in spring 2024, following protests after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel.
A new play in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tells Katherine Power’s story alongside that of Clare Schroeder, the daughter of the policeman Power helped kill.
The Getaway Driver opens at Central Square Theater on 29 October.
Power spent 23 years on the run from the FBI, from 1970 until 1993.
In 1970, she was the getaway driver in a bank robbery during which a police officer was shot and killed.
Playwright Charlie Thurston said the production aims to give equal weight to the stories of Power and the Schroeder family.
- Who
- Katherine Power and Clare Schroeder, daughter of the policeman Power helped kill.
- What
- The play The Getaway Driver tells their stories.
- When
- It opens on 29 October. The article does not state the year.
- Where
- Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Why
- The play aims to amplify the Schroeder family’s perspective and give equal weight to both women’s stories.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Power arrived at Brandeis in Massachusetts, hoping to become a science teacher.
Power and four others stole weapons from a Massachusetts National Guard armoury.
The group robbed a State Street bank in Boston, and a police officer was shot and killed.
Power was on the run from the FBI for 23 years.
The Getaway Driver is due to open at Central Square Theater in Cambridge.
- Power’s time on the run
- 23 years, from 1970 until 1993
- Bank robbery
- State Street bank, Boston
- Money stolen
- $26,000, estimated in the article as $200,000 today
- Power’s age at the time
- 21
- Play venue
- Central Square Theater, Cambridge
- Play opening
- 29 October
What people are saying
We felt utterly powerless.
That early optimism that students could have massive change, faded.
We wanted to give equal weight to their stories.
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