He watches the women strip off their clothes and run screaming onto the ice, trying to kill themselves. Gross, dude.įather agrees with Peary's assessment of the Eskimos. We learn of the attitudes of Peary and his men toward the Eskimos, who they say are "like children" and should be treated as such.
We join Father on his expedition with Peary to the South Pole. Late that night Little Boy wakes up and finds Mother sitting by the bed. The police figure out who the mother is, but instead of pursuing charges for attempted murder, agree to let Mother take the woman and the baby in. Walking through the garden, Mother hears a noise and discovers a black baby buried there. Little Boy is back there too, with a letter Father sent from the Arctic that's all greasy with whale oil. Worried about the business and Father being away, Mother takes a walk in the garden. Then she brought him and her younger brother to live with her in New Rochelle. We learn about Mother's life, which hasn't been all that bad: grew up in Ohio, Dad (Grandfather) was a professor of Greek and Latin, and she married Father after meeting him on a sales trip. She basically thinks he's lonely and weird. Mother waits to hear from her Younger Brother, unaware that's he's off in a closet watching Evelyn Nesbit get a massage.
She sews and lives like a woman in the Jewish slums, before being picked up every day by her chauffeur. Despite Tateh's objections, she stays with the child and bathes the girl while Tateh works.Įvelyn thinks about kidnapping Little Girl and giving her a better life, but decides to spend her afternoons at Tateh's instead. One day Evelyn can't find Tateh and Little Girl and tracks them down to their flat, where she discovers Little Girl has a fever. During these portraits she notices Mother's Younger Brother watching her. Not very fair to Mameh.Įvelyn takes an interest in Little Girl and over the next several weeks gets her own and Little Girl's silhouette portrait done many times. He also threw Mameh out and mourns her as if she were dead. He's only 32 years old, but his hair turned white when he learned about Mameh offering herself to her boss for extra money. Tateh works as a silhouette artist, cutting paper portraits. In fact, Tateh keeps her tethered to him, because little girls can get kidnapped and sold into slavery. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, the novelist Theodore Dreiser obsesses over his bad reviews, and how he should set up his chair.Įvelyn Nesbit has her own encounter with Tateh and Little Girl, who apparently is so pretty no one can take their eyes off her. That would be approximately five million bucks today. She grew up in a coal town and thinks she's doing pretty well for herself now. She tells the reporters he's innocent but is secretly receiving two hundred thousand dollars for her testimony. Evelyn visits regularly, sometimes performing sexual acts on him. Harry's in jail at the Tombs, but the lucky guy, still gets his meals catered in. She's doing this even though Harry used to beat her before their marriage. So she's living in a hotel in New York rehearsing her testimony for the trial. Thaw has just shot and killed her former lover Stanford White. Well, that's not exactly true: he also likes that model Evelyn Nesbit.Įvelyn's husband Harry K. Fireworks are Mother's Younger Brother's only passion. This party has baseball, beer and fireworks. Doors open 30 minutes prior to each performance.During a heatwave it's way nicer to be in the country than in the city, so some politicians host a party out in the boondocks. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Friday, February 25 at 7:30 PM Friday, March 11 at 7:30 PM Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 PM Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 PM Sunday, February 27 at 2:30 PM Sunday, March 13 at 2:30 PM Friday, March 04 at 7:30 PM Saturday, March 05 at 7:30 PM Sunday, March 06 at 2:30 PM. The ensemble includes: Kevin Leichman, Jenny Carroll, Brandon Lloyd Hicks, Joshua Christopher Doyle, Dennis Welch, Micah Cross, Beryl Torrence, Corinne Mauldin, Alexis Greer, Bradley Eudy, Isaac Welch, Carla Holt, Zakiya Smyre, & Zana Smyre-Rouse. Washington, Laura Raynor-Williams as Emma Goldman, & Lauren Stephenson as Evelyn Nesbit. Piedmont Players Theatre’s cast includes: Aidan Melton as The Little Boy, Bradley Smith as Father, Wendy Weant as Mother, Nick Culp as Younger Brother, Christopher Barcroft as Grandfather, Michael Brooks as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Leslie Roberts as Sarah, Paul Leopard as Tateh, Maryella Rosko as The Little Girl, Marc Anderson as Booker T.
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