A Thread of Scarlet

A Thread of Scarlet

Howard Richardson, Ella Gerber Kasakoff

A Thread of Scarlet

A Thread of Scarlet

Howard Richardson, Ella Gerber Kasakoff

Overview

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.

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  • Cast Attributes: Multicultural casting

Authors

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Howard Richardson

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Ella Gerber Kasakoff

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