PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
Well. It’s Winter ❄️.
I’m spending January and February working toward bookings in March Women’s History Month) and beyond: a LOT of emails and phone calls, research and writing . . . with breaks to shovel snow ❄️.
For April (National Poetry Month), I’m promoting more performances of Places, Please, Act One, Warren Kliewer’s “poems around and about theatres,” which premiered last year and toured as far west as Kansas. And I have a new summer program—this makes four—with stories by O. Henry and my favorite, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, titled Independence Days.
For starters, here’s the March Calendar:
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Tuesday, March 3, 7:15 p.m.
Gettysburg: One Woman's War
Civil War Roundtable of Eastern PA VENUE: Delta Hotels by Marriott Allentown Lehigh Valley Private booking; please contact me for admission
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Thursday, March 5, 5:30 p.m.
The Bedquilt
Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library 479 Broadway, Monticello, NY 12701 https://ebcpl.org 845-794-4660
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Saturday, March 7, 1:00 p.m.
Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Ellenville Public Library and Museum 40 Center Street, Ellenville, NY https://eplm.org 845-647-1497
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Sunday, March 8, 2:00
Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Albert Wisner Public Library One McFarland Drive, Warwick, NY 10990 845-986-1047 https://albertwisnerlibrary.org/
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Wednesday, March 25, 5:45 p.m.
The Revolt of “Mother”
Medfield Public Library with Medfield Council on Aging
VENUE: 1 Ice House Road, Medfield, MA 02052 508-359-4544 https://www.medfieldpubliclibrary.org/
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Thursday, March 26, 1:30 p.m.
The Revolt of “Mother” Brightview Senior Living
57 Grandeville Court, South Kingstown, RI 02879 Private booking; please contact me re admission
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Monday, March 30 or Wednesday, April 1; 6:30 p.m.
Gettysburg: One Woman's War Seminary Ridge Museum
111 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA 17325 717-339-1300 www.seminaryridgemuseum.org
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Wednesday, March 31, 2:00 p.m.
The Revolt of “Mother” Joseph T. Simpson Public Library Learning and Book Sale Center
45 West Allen Street, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0171 https://www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org/SIM
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Library performances are free; reservations recommended.
Want to bring a performance to your library, club, or home? I’ll travel anywhere. Just write or call to ask (ruedelarue@aol.com, 201-863-6436).
🏠 ABOUT THE REVOLT OF “MOTHER”
Long ago, Adoniram Penn promised his wife that he would build a proper house on their New England farm. He even pointed out the spot. That was early in their marriage—two children ago. Now, as their eldest prepares for her wedding, the family still crams into the old, shabby cottage . . . and Father is building a barn where the new house belongs. It’s the last straw for Mother, and Father’s in for a surprise. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
