About This Show
32 years following her death, and 88 years after her historic appearance at Carnegie Hall, the Lady from Montana returns to New York City. From May 25 through June 19, audiences will experience the life, times and fortitude of first US Congresswoman and lifelong pacifist, Jeannette Rankin, in Nevada Shakespeare Company’s A Single Woman.
Jeannette Rankin voted against US entry into both world wars as a representative in Congress in 1917, before Suffrage, and again in 1941 when hers was the lone dissenting voice. Rankin once said, “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” She was a great friend and unrequited love of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a thorn in the side of public figures including Franklin Roosevelt. Rankin was founding Vice-President of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The play moves backwards through Rankin’s life from one of her last television talk show appearances when she was 92 in the early 1970’s, to her childhood on the Montana plains in 1880. The play is an exploration – both subtle and down to earth – of the genius and courage of her career as an activist and advocate for women, workers and children.
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