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2024 Women’s Equality Day
A Baby, A Birdcage and the Ballot Box: A Live Theatre Event Celebrating Women’s Equality Day
Dates
August 26, 2024
Description
A Baby, A Birdcage, and The Ballot Box: A Staged Reading of Suffragette Comedies in Honor of Women’s Equality Day.
Make no mistake, America’s Suffragettes had a sense of humor. In this special lineup, audiences will experience two vintage, suffrage plays: A Suffragette Baby (1912) by Alice C. Thompson and The Parrot Cage (1914) by Mary Shaw.
The League of Women Voters Broward, a non-partisan organization, will be presenting a suffrage exhibit at this event.
More about the Plays
Dubbed “parlor plays,” these short comedies were privately printed and originally intended for amateur performance at home in, you guessed it, people’s parlors. In the late 1970s, while doing research at Radcliffe College, scholar Bettina Friedl rediscovered these long forgotten treasures and compiled them into a special edition. These dramatic gems humorously and pointedly tackle issues such as the work/life balance dilemma and the oppressiveness of socially-prescribed gender roles. Viewers can expect to enjoy some laughs and marvel at both how far we’ve come and how we’ve still to go in the journey for equal human rights.
This program was made possible by a joint grant from The Our Fund Foundation and The Community Foundation of Broward.
Thank you to community partners The League of Women Voters’ of Broward County and Skirt Magazine South Florida.