East Lynne Theater Company presents a Comedy About Women and the Vote

"Woman suffrage is the reform against nature," declares Marie Jenney Howe's unlikely, but irresistibly likeable, heroine. "Ladies, get what you want. Make home a hell on earth--but do it in womanly way! That is so much more dignified than dropping a piece of paper into a ballot box."

Howe, a pro-suffragist, wrote her "Anti-Suffrage Monologue" in 1912-eight years before women won the vote. Her fictional speaker believes her efforts as a "womanly woman" will keep the Home intact and save the Nation from anarchy.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company presents "Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire" on Sunday, August 13 at 8:00 p.m. Performed by Michele LaRue, this humorous one-act will be followed by a lecture, given by LaRue, followed by a Q&A. The location is The First Presbyterian Church of Cape May, 500 Hughes Street, where ELTC is in residence.

This special event is co-sponsored with Cape May Forum, who is offering a special dinner/show package with The Merion Inn, located right across the street from the church. For these $60 tickets, contact Cape May Forum directly at 609-770-2626 or visit www.capemayforum.org. ELTC tickets are also available for $27; $17 for full-time students and military (active/retired/veteran); and ages 12 and under are free. These tickets may be purchased and/or reserved by calling 609-884-5898 or purchased directly through www.eastlynnetheater.org.

For over 25 years, Michele LaRue has been performing this and other one-woman shows throughout the country. Her late husband and founder of ELTC, Warren Kliewer, directed "Dishes." Michele has performed in other ELTC productions, is an active member of New Jersey Repertory Company, and a member of Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. As a theater editor and writer, she has collaborated on a variety of notable books.

LaRue was one of the first to read on porches as part of ELTC's "Tales of the Victorians." Now, under her own title, "Tales Well Told," she reads works of Kate Chopin, O. Henry, and other American writers, in various venues throughout the country. A popular piece recently has been her "Gettysburg: One Woman's War," three stories from Elsie Singmaster's moving 1913 classic book "Gettysburg." She presented this stirring work at one of ELTC's "Tales" in July.

ELTC's final summer "Tales" is on Thursday, August 10 at 4:00 p.m. at The Blue Rose Inn & Restaurant, 653 Washington Street, Cape May. Performers are Stephanie Garrett and Lee O'Connor. Admission is $12, which includes tasty treats served by the venue. Once again, ages 12 and under are free. Meanwhile, "Ah, Wilderness!" continues on ELTC's mainstage Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. through September 2.

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