Mrs. Packard
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 4, 2007
Closed Jun 10, 2007
Opened May 4, 2007
Closed Jun 10, 2007
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Emily Mann's world premiere Mrs. Packard is set in llinois, 1861. Reverend Theophilus Packard takes advantage of the law and commits his wife of 21 years to a lunatic asylum without proof of insanity. Was Elizabeth Packard's grasp on reality faltering, or were their mounting disagreements over religion and the raising of their children the impetus for wrongful incarceration? Once inside the brutal prison, a frightened Mrs. Packard meets a charming foe, the asylum's medical superintendent Dr. McFarland. Their inevitable clash proves both surprising and devastating for them both.
Based on actual historical events, Emily Mann, author of Having Our Say, Execution of Justice, and many other acclaimed plays, creates a gripping and ultimately triumphant account of one woman's determination to right a system gone terribly wrong.
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When director Emily Mann puts on her no-nonsense playwright's hat, she often marches off to rectify cruelty and social injustice. This is again the case with the powerful if inconsistent
Mrs. Packard, now making its world premiere at Mann's artistic home, Princeton's McCarter Theater. The play, also helmed by Mann, deals seriously with man's inhumanity to women -- more specifically, one husband's inhumanity to his wife.
In 1861, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (the excellent and uncompromising Kathryn Meisle) had the misfortune of differing with her Calvinist preacher spouse's beliefs in church doctrine. At the time, Illinois law held that a husband could commit his wife to an asylum on the[...]