Smut: The Travails of a Virtuous Woman

About the Show

Making its World Premiere, Smut: The Travails of a Virtuous Woman is written by Alice Jay in collaboration with Joseph Adler.

Welcome to the Gilded Age in Old New York. The architect of repression has outlawed abortion, contraception, books. Three women – a reformer, an immigrant, a wife – dare to defy him. When one man decides what the laws should be, liberties are trampled, voices are silenced. There is no choice.

Smut is inspired by the real-life collision of sexual educator Ida Craddock and America’s national censor, Anthony Comstock.