A Different Woman
A True Story of a Texas Childhood
Created and performed by Veronica Russell
adapted from the book My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley
A True Story of a Texas Childhood
Created and performed by Veronica Russell
adapted from the book My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley
[credit: R. Prados]
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Playing...
Thursday, May 22 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, May 23 @ 9:00 pm
Saturday, May 24 @ 10:30 pm
BANNED internationally,
DESTROYED at U.S. and British customs, and considered
SHOCKING by some of the greatest literary minds of its day.....
The memoir of a west Texas schoolteacher written in 1925.
Don’t miss this groundbreaking adaptation of schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's controversial 1925 autobiography, My First Thirty Years. It was immediately banned as obscene in Europe and the U.S, and she was institutionalized by authorities for the rest of her life. Fortunately her words remain; an unvarnished, outspoken, unapologetically cynical and humorous tale of a rural Texas childhood told by a woman who pulled herself out of the cycle of poverty and abuse in which she found herself. A DIFFERENT WOMAN is a darkly humorous stage adaptation of Ms. Beasley's controversial memoir.
BIO
Veronica Russell (PERFORMER)
Veronica Russell graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Stephen F. Austin State University. A native of Texas, she moved to New Orleans in 1995 and has been active in the theater community there ever since, winning numerous awards for performance and costume design over the years. In 2004 she discovered Gertrude Beasley's almost-lost autobiography My First Thirty Years and adapted it into the one-woman show "A Different Woman: a True Story of a Texas Childhood." Since that time she has performed this show in New Orleans, Lafayette, New York City, and in 2011 she toured it across Canada. In addition, she is artistic director of Louisiana History Alive, a theater company dedicated to educating and entertaining audiences by providing first-person experiences with noted figures of Louisiana's past as portrayed by some of New Orleans' leading performers.
ARTIST/SHOW WEBSITE
http://www.texpatriateproductions.com
Playing...
Thursday, May 22 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, May 23 @ 9:00 pm
Saturday, May 24 @ 10:30 pm
BANNED internationally,
DESTROYED at U.S. and British customs, and considered
SHOCKING by some of the greatest literary minds of its day.....
The memoir of a west Texas schoolteacher written in 1925.
Don’t miss this groundbreaking adaptation of schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's controversial 1925 autobiography, My First Thirty Years. It was immediately banned as obscene in Europe and the U.S, and she was institutionalized by authorities for the rest of her life. Fortunately her words remain; an unvarnished, outspoken, unapologetically cynical and humorous tale of a rural Texas childhood told by a woman who pulled herself out of the cycle of poverty and abuse in which she found herself. A DIFFERENT WOMAN is a darkly humorous stage adaptation of Ms. Beasley's controversial memoir.
BIO
Veronica Russell (PERFORMER)
Veronica Russell graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Stephen F. Austin State University. A native of Texas, she moved to New Orleans in 1995 and has been active in the theater community there ever since, winning numerous awards for performance and costume design over the years. In 2004 she discovered Gertrude Beasley's almost-lost autobiography My First Thirty Years and adapted it into the one-woman show "A Different Woman: a True Story of a Texas Childhood." Since that time she has performed this show in New Orleans, Lafayette, New York City, and in 2011 she toured it across Canada. In addition, she is artistic director of Louisiana History Alive, a theater company dedicated to educating and entertaining audiences by providing first-person experiences with noted figures of Louisiana's past as portrayed by some of New Orleans' leading performers.
ARTIST/SHOW WEBSITE
http://www.texpatriateproductions.com
From Kickstarter January 2011