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MARY AND MYRA 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. Click here for information about performing or purchasing this play. |
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"But playwright
Catherine Filloux hangs plenty of flesh on the thin bones of the
public record. To her credit, she renders Mary Todd a creature
of contradiction, at once petulant and impossible, demanding and
clear-eyed, unable to contain the sharp tongue that so offends
her thin-skinned eldest child. Myra Bradwell is equally complex." "Mary and Myra takes the
audience hostage…a kind of
séance, a spellbinding recreation of lives that come toward
us like torches lighting the future." "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."
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