A Thread of Scarlet
by Howard Richardson, Ella Gerber Kasakoff
Synopsis
Here is a flamboyant portrait of Victoria Woodhull who ran for office with Frederick Douglass on a platform that included women's suffrage, free love, abortion, birth control, spiritualism, and anarchy.
Her affair with Henry Ward Beecher ruined both of their careers.
A choral group introduces each scene with songs or hymns of the period.
Press Reviews
"An interesting play, heightened by poetically couched dialogue and dramatic tension."
— New York Times
Publication
A Thread of Scarlet is a play written by Howard Richardson and published by Samuel French (1980).
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Samuel French · 1980 · 98 pp
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