BY LESLIE GABEL-BRETT
Directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
A staged reading, Woodhull/Beecher is inspired by real events that took place in New York City in the early 1870’s. Victoria Woodhull and her sister opened a stock brokerage in New York City. At the time, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher – brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe – was building his stature as an orator and abolitionist. As Woodhull campaigned against marriage and for “free love” and became a candidate for president of the United States, she faced political backlash and ruin. The story of how their lives intersected is a story of ambition, sex and gender and about whose version of the truth could be told and believed in America.
The Saturday matinee performance at 2:00 pm will be followed by a conversation with the playwright, Leslie Gabel-Brett
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