Theatre--Performance

A Different Woman, tales from a true Texas Childhood, an original one woman play written and performed by Veronica Russell, will be playing at Cité des Arts this Friday, March 11 & Saturday, March 12th at 7:30pm. Tickets are $12.50 for general admission, and $10.00 for Students and Seniors. Please call 291-1122 for reservations In the freewheeling, liberated 1920's, women finally get the vote, but apparently publishing anecdotes about childhood abuse, your brothers' sexual exploits with the family livestock, and sincere wishes that death and destruction might be visited upon all the members of your backwater Texas family would still get a girl institutionalized and kicked out of Great Britain. Edna Gertrude Beasley is the most incendiary feminist author never heard of. Her autobiography, My First Thirty Years, was banned upon its publication in 1925 for "gross obscenity," and most copies were destroyed in U.S. and British customs offices. Some eventually made it into circulation, though the governor of Texas later sent the Texas Rangers to seek out and seize any copies that had managed to infiltrate his great state. Upon discovering this powerfully independent iconoclast and her amazing story, Veronica Russell set about adapting portions of her all-but-vanished book into a one-woman theatrical production which has been performed to great success in New York and New Orleans. There is now have the opportunity to help re- introduce Gertrude and her story to a larger audience.  Throughout the summer of 2011 this show will tour 6 Canadian Fringe theatre festivals, including a stop in Edmonton, the largest such festival in the Americas.