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Drama |
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Full-length, 90 minutes
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2 females |
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A room in an insane asylum.
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| In the summer of 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln (the President's widow) resides in an insane asylum, sent there by her only living son. Her progressive friend Myra Bradwell (America's first woman lawyer) arrives to help Mary gain her release by exposing the injustices of her trial. But Myra's motives and Mary's sanity are both up for debate, as they grapple with their pasts and their perceptions of freedom and womanhood. |
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| "Mary and Myra needs no special treatment to be a major theater piece. The writing is so exact that it is hard to imagine actors failing when reading the script. The success is in a tight script with every line on target." |
| --Grave Cavalieri, The Morgan Messenger (West Virginia) |
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| Babo Harrison and Rosemary Knower in the World Premiere of Mary & Myra at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (2000). Photo: Ken Cobb. |
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