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WOODHULL/BEECHER

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 will be followed by a conversation with the playwright. 

Woodhull/Beecher is presented as part of Women's History Month in collaboration with community partners She Leads Justice (formerly CWEALF), The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and the League of Women Voters Connecticut. Please join us on Wed, March 6 for a panel discussion on women and the vote. Panelists and special guests to be announced. More details to follow - please save the date!

Woodhull/Beecher is supported in part by CT Office of the Arts, Department of Economic and Community Development.