Fanny and Walt
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 9, 2000
Closed Jul 1, 2000
Opened Jun 9, 2000
Closed Jul 1, 2000
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The Blue Heron Theatre presents Jewel Seehaus-Fisher's play celebrating the meteoric relationship between a young Walt Whitman and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern. Set in 1856 in New York City, Fanny & Walt traces the arc of this fascinating but doomed attraction between a strong, vivid woman who longs to recapture the passion of her youth and a seductive boy-genius who yearns to spin life into poetry with little regard for doing the conventionally right thing.
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It is always valuable to remember the women behind the famous men, the women whose revolutionary work and ideas preceded those whose names made it to the history books. It's also helpful to be reminded of controversy in context. And so it is with Fanny and Walt, a new play by Jewel Seehaus-Fisher (running through July 1 at Blue Heron Arts Center), which portrays a unique friendship between a pre-Civil War feminist and a groundbreaking poet.
The Fanny of the title is to Fanny Fern (Dee Pelletier), America's first female newspaper columnist, a novelist, and an early feminist, and the Walt is Whitman (Charles Geyer), whose controversial Leaves of Grass Fern daringly championed in her co[...]