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Lucretia Mott featured in local play this spring
Melinda Yin • February 27, 2020
Play ‘Under the Bonnet’ Is About Lucretia Mott, by Shelli Pentimall Bookler
Saturday Feb. 15 – 2pm – LaMott Library and Rec Center, Elkins Park
Sunday, Feb. 16 – 2pm – 2nd Baptist Church of Germantown, Philadelphia
Saturday, Feb. 29 – 2pm – Willow Grove Giant
Sunday, March 1 – 2pm – Easttown Library, Berwyn
Thursday, March 5 – 7pm – William Jeanes Memorial Library, Lafayette Hill
Sunday, March 8 – 2pm – Brandywine River Art Museum, Chadds Ford. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
Tuesday March 10 – 7:30pm – Radnor Memorial Library, Wayne
Sunday, March 22 – 3pm– Women’s History Essay Contest Student Awards Ceremony – Historic Fair Hill, Philadelphia
This new 40 minute play by Shelli Pentimall Bookler focuses on Lucretia Mott, a tenacious woman who spent her life fighting for the rights of women and African Americans. A Quaker, she strongly believed that all people are equal.
Mott helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments for the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, igniting the fight for women’s suffrage. She also helped found Swarthmore College.
Her resolve for creating equality continued until her final days. “Under the Bonnet” reveals the strength and tenacity of her character and accomplishments. Through conversations with her husband James Mott and Frederick Douglass, it allows us a glimpse of the tender and compassionate woman under the bonnet.
Presented by Beacon Theatre Productions,
the 40-minute production will be followed by a talk back discussion with the actors.
Directed by:
Georgina Bard and Steve Gaissert
CAST:
Lucretia Mott - Heather Plank
James Mott - Robert Weick
Frederick Douglass - Eric Carter
This performance is part of Art of the Vote presented by PNC Arts Alive.
Digital Epistles from Merion
Silent Vigils held to honor the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and the countless known and unknown victims of injustice were organized by Laura Jackson and Melinda Yin. Members, attenders, and allies have been standing in front of the Meeting House from May 29 to June 13, from 30 to 60 minutes in groups of 2-16. The Sisters of Mercy and their friends, joined in the second week. Their spiritual mission encompasses a commitment to social justice, with 5 interdependent critical concerns. These are: non-violence, the earth, immigration, anti-racism, and the condition of women.
Sasha Chavchavadze, 65, worships from Wellfleet, Mass. .