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That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 6, 2004
Closed Mar 13, 2004
Running Time:
1hr. 15min.

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers is a one woman play based on the life of celebrated writer and critic Dame Rebecca West, featuring veteran actress Anne Bobby. The play explores the intriguing life of a woman described in a 1947 Time magazine cover story as "indisputably the world's No. 1 woman writer," and by Virginia Woolf as "a cross between a gypsy and a charwoman." That Woman touches on both the public and the private life of West, particularly the stormy relationships with her lover H.G. Wells, their son Anthony, and her husband Henry.

Told largely in West's own words, the play's action spans one of the most interesting lives of the 20th century. West was a fearless commentator on the historically and socially volatile events of her 90-year life - a life that began when Queen Victoria was on the throne, and ended with Boy George on top of the charts. Suffragette, single mother, denouncer of Stalin and the lover of such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, John Gunther, Max Beaverbrook and Francis Biddle, West was one of the most acute and harsh critics of twentieth century matters. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, her ground-breaking masterpiece of political analysis and personal impressions of Yugoslavia, remains the definitive work about the still-roiling region.

Appropriate for kids 12 and up.

The performances on Saturday, March 6th and March 13th at 9pm are Special Benefit Performances. All Tickets for these performances are $35.00.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Manhattan TheatreSource
177 MacDougal St
New York, NY 10011


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Dame Rebecca West, the British literary journalist and fiction writer, bulldozed her way through 91 years of unremitting personal conflict, writing rich, fiery prose throughout most of her life. She may not be a household name today but, in 1947, West was "indisputably the world's no. 1 woman writer" -- at least, according to a much-quoted cover story in Time. Earlier, she had participated vigorously in the last days of First Wave Feminism. And later, in the 1970s, she became an icon of the Women's Liberation movement, although she claimed not to know "precisely what feminism is." With current theater economics prompting the production of many one-person shows about dead celebrities, it was [...]


Reviewed by Charles Wright on Mar 9, 2004

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