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Votes for Women!
Phone: 312-587-7390
Price: $22
shawchicago.org
Elizabeth Robins starred in British productions of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House, and the Norwegian playwright's influence is evident in her 1907 London hit. Written a decade before British women got the vote, this suspenseful story of a militant suffragette and her ex-lover, a Conservative politician, links women's suffrage to economic injustice, class prejudice, reproductive rights, and the need for radical activism to stir a complacent political establishment to action. Substitute "health care reform" for "women's suffrage," and the rousing drama becomes as timely as it was a century ago. Presented by Shaw Chicago under Robert Scogin's direction, this superbly acted concert reading features a blistering performance by Suzanne Lang. --Albert Williams
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Ruth Page Center for the Arts
- Gold Coast/Mag Mile/Streeterville 1016 N. Dearborn St.
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847-864-5323
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