Synopsis

Mrs Lincoln

Mrs Lincoln $13

Thomas Cullinan

Published by Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

"In 1875, ten years after Lincoln's tragic death, his widow was declared insane and upon petition of her son, Robert, was confined in the Bethlehem Place Sanitarium, Batavia, Illinois, for about a year

Cullinan has set his play in the confines of this room and Mary Todd Lincoln recalls the incidents of her married life, far beyond the four walls that surround her. Cullinan's treatment is masterly

The rear curtain is divided into panels and as the mind of the woman wanders her thoughts take form. These scenes flash on from time to time as Mrs Lincoln's wandering mind brings a new incident into focus

Always she is victimized; always each speaker is inimical in her deranged reasoning In the second act another inmate imitates Lincoln at the doctor's orders in an effort to quiet the widow's mind. And in the final act, when time is nearing for her discharge, Robert calls on his mother and promises her a speedy release" ~ Fine Arts magazine

First presented by Ohio's famed Cleveland Play House, this remarkably inventive and exciting play probes into the dark corners of history to reveal the bizarre but affecting story of Abraham Lincoln's widow in the bitter years after his assassination

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