SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — She’s History! The Most Dangerous Women In America, Then And Now… a solo play presented by It Ain’t No Fairy Tale Productions and The Women’s Museum of California plays at The Downtown YWCA Auditorium, Saturday March 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. The shows celebrate Women’s History Month and are fundraisers for the museum.
When her ten-year-old daughter came home from school stating she was planning on doing her Women’s History Project on Cher, Writer/Performer and Cultural Herstorian, Amy Simon knew something needed to be done.
From first female Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President in 1872, She’s History! brings to life the true tales of fabulous females, then and now.
Drawing on diaries, letters, publications, and biographies, and combining theater, history, music, multimedia, audience interaction, and good old-fashioned story telling, Simon, a member of the Jewish community, poignantly and comically chronicles the struggles and accomplishments of our unheralded, unknown and forgotten heroines.
Watch Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony multi-task – just like today’s mom – running the house, fixing dinner and corralling the kids, all while working on the Fourteenth Amendment. See and hear about Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir, Bloomers, Suffrage, Maternal Profiling, Seneca Falls, Abolition and more! Richard Kuhlman, who also directed writer/performer Simon’s Cheerios In My Underwear, which holds the record as the longest running solo show in Los Angeles, directs the show. Kuhlman’s many other credits include “Regretrosexual”, “Of Mice and Men”, “Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead”, and the Ovation nominated “Non-Vital Organs”. Los Angeles based Simon performs her unique brand of her-storical entertainment for schools, libraries, museums, military bases, women’s groups, seniors, political and social organizations and in theaters, from New York to Los Angeles, and is a frequent commentator and guest on local and national radio. The Women’s Museum of California is also the fiscal sponsor for the She’s History Education Project. The play is family friendly appropriate for ages ten and up with a running time of about 70 minutes.
Tickets are $20 for the general public and $15 for students, museum members and military families. Call (619) 233- 7963 for reservations and info or visit womensmuseumca.org. The Downtown YWCA Auditorium is located at 1012 C Street, San Diego, CA 92101.
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Preceding provided by the Women’s Museum of California