A Thread of Scarlet
by Howard Richardson, Ella Gerber Kasakoff

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Multicultural CastingBare Stage/Simple Set

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

PublisherSamuel French
Year1980
BindingPaperback
Pages98
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573617256
ISBN-100573617252

A Thread of Scarlet is a play written by Howard Richardson and published by Samuel French (1980).

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