Representation and How to Get It, a play inspired by Julia Ward Howe
Sunday, September 18, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Rocky Hill Meeting House, 4 Old Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, Mass.
Join us for this one-woman show inspired by the life and writings of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), a civil rights activist, playwright, poet, founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association, and author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The forty-five minute performance is a collaboration by playwright Joyce Van Dyke, director Judy Braha, and actor Elaine Vaan Hogue.
Howe has some questions for her audience—then and now. Why did her own great-grandfather exclude her from the Declaration of Independence? Why don’t women have the right to pursue happiness too? What happens to your soul when you don’t have representation? As she rehearses “Representation And How To Get It”—a talk she’s about to give to the Boston Radical Club—she sees a vision of an America greater than the one presented by the Founding Fathers and gives a prescient warning about the growing political crisis that threatens our democracy today. And what, Julia asks, are we doing about it?
Members $15; Nonmembers $20; Students $10. Log in or join now to have your discount applied at checkout.
Advanced tickets recommended. Please call 978-462-2634 for more information. Please park along the sides of Old Portsmouth Road. There is overflow parking at the Sparkhawk School next door.
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