PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
Welcome back!
I’M back—for a bit—from my 16-day, 900-mile tour of Eastern Kansas, and more performance weekends on Block Island, RI, and at Winnipeg, Manitoba’s “Mennonite/s Writing Conference 10.”
Most of these bookings were for Places, Please, Act One—a one-woman show years in the making, which I introduced in April, in New Jersey. It comprises selections from three volumes by Warren Kliewer, including his newly published Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres. My tenth performance, at NYC’s singular Drama Book Shop, was a joy. Warren’s poems are playlets. Places, Please, Act One features 35 of these, and I play 45 characters in an hour. DBS has been a gathering place for actors since 1917, and my audience of theatre people laughed, sighed, and cringed at Warren’s all-too-familar scenarios.
Signed copies of Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres—the book—are on sale at Drama Book Shop. Unsigned copies are available on Amazon and via this website AND Warren’s: warrenkliewer.com .
My performance was recorded for DBS’s new podcast, Drama Book Show. Visit https://dramabookshop.com/ in a few weeks to find it. Or write me at ruedelarue@aol.com .
And NOW: THE CALENDAR
Descriptions of Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire; Places, Please, Act One; and The Bedquilt have their own pages on this site. Briefer descriptions of The Revolt of “Mother,” My Summer Vacation, and Halloween Hauntings are at the end of this calendar.
Performances free unless noted.
🥛Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
NEW DATE!!!!!!! Monday, July 21, 5:30 p.m.
Rehoboth Beach Public Library
226 Rehoboth Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 (302) 227-8044 https://rehoboth.lib.de.us/
🌞 My Summer Vacation
Thursday, July 31, 6:30
Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759 (860) 567-8030 https://www.owlibrary.org/
🥛Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Friday, August 22, 6:00 or 7:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Consortium
Johnstown, NY 12095
More information to come
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Wednesday, September 10, 5:30 p.m.?
Medfield Public Library and Medfield Council on Aging
VENUE: 1 Ice House Road, Medfield, MA 02052 CALL: Library (508) 359-4544 https://www.medfieldpubliclibrary.org/
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Sunday, September 14, 2:00 p.m.
Suffern Free Library
210 Lafayette Avenue, Suffern, NY 10901 (845) 357-1237 www.suffernfreelibrary.org
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Wednesday, September 17, 1:00 p.m.
Cape May City Library
720 Franklin Street, Cape May, NJ 08204 (609) 884-9568 https://cmclibrary.org/about-the-library/locations/capemaycity
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Sunday, September 28, Tea Social, 12:00-3:00
Ladies of St. Joseph Church
91 Stillhouse Road, Millstone Twp., NJ 08510 Contact me for details: (201) 863-436
🎃 Halloween Hauntings
Sunday, October 19, 1:00 p.m.
Wood-Ridge Historical Society Bianchi House, 111 First Street, Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 (201) 939-0202, option 2 https://www.njwoodridge.org/departments/woodridge-historical-society
Want to bring a performance to your library, club, or home? I’ll travel anywhere. Just write or call to ask (ruedelarue@aol.com, 201-863-6436).
🌞 ABOUT MY SUMMER VACATION
The Nice People: a charming young couple brings mystery to a rustic resort: that is, they seem nice . . . but . . .? By H. C. Bunner Miss Esther’s Guest: oh, dear—is not the one she asked for. By Sarah Orne Jewett
🏠 ABOUT THE REVOLT OF “MOTHER”
Long ago, Adoniram Penn promised his wife that he would build a proper house on their New England farm. He even pointed out the spot. That was early in their marriage—two children ago. Now, as their eldest prepares for her wedding, the family still crams into the old, shabby cottage . . . and Father is building a barn where the new house belongs. It’s the last straw for Mother, and Father’s in for a surprise. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
🎃 ABOUT HALLOWEEN HAUNTINGS
The Shadows on the Wall: in the wake of a sudden mysterious death, four siblings are drawn to a familiar but menacing New England parlor. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The House That Was Not lures a naive new bride over the bleak Nebraska prairie. By Elia Wilkinson Peattie
