The Yellow Wallpaper

Her thermometer in Pasadena reading 103 degrees, feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper in less than 48 hours. The narrator, believed by many to be the voice of Gilman, undergoes Dr. Weir S. Mitchell’s Victorian ‘rest cure’ for women. The narrator loses her sanity, finally ripping the yellowed paper from the walls to free the women she sees trapped inside. Gilman abandoned her daily journal writing during her six week sanitarium stay, The Yellow Wallpaper her only only offering of her hellish experience.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is unveiled in a fusion of theatre and dance — a fictional exorcism of her six-week sanitarium stay hell.

Appropriate For Ages: 12 and up