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A Visit with Eleanor Roosevelt at NCCC
Northwestern CT Community College, Park Place East in Winsted will present In Her Own Voice: A Visit with Eleanor Roosevelt. In this one-woman dramatization, Robin Lane, as Eleanor Roosevelt, shares her life and times.
For many years and throughout the world, Eleanor Roosevelt has been one of our best known public figures, yet very few really knew her. Despite her unceremonious, guileless image, Mrs. Roosevelt was a complex human being. For much of her life Eleanor could not speak openly without having to worry about offending FDR or the Congress. Yet after her husband's death, standing alone—speaking for herself—she began to find her own voice.
Robin Lane, a Boston-based actor, writer and producer, has gained a national reputation for her penetrating portraits of historical women. Her theatrical production Artful Lives is based on the lives of three women artists, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. In Queen of Back Bay, which Lane wrote and began touring in 1987, she produced a memorable portrait of the intriguing Isabella Stewart Gardner, who lived in Boston in a Venetian palace that she designed and built at the turn of the century.
Since 1980, Robin Lane has been touring the United States with her one-woman show, Ladies First, which dramatizes the lives of six first ladies, including Eleanor Roosevelt. James Roosevelt told Mrs. Lane, "When I closed my eyes, I could hear my mother's voice; the similarity was just amazing." One newspaper reviewer wrote, "Robin Lane brings her first ladies to startling life through the use of props, costumes, a poetically-written script, and creative performing artistry."
In Her Own Voice will be presented on Monday, March 4 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Founders Hall Auditorium This theatrical production is sponsored by NCCC's cultural planning committee and funded by the Northwestern Community College Foundation. It is free and open to the public; for more info call 860-738-6333.
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