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Someone Must Wash the Dishes

An Anti-Suffrage Satire. Performed by Michèle LaRue

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Many women fought against getting the vote, but none with more charm, prettier clothes—and less logic—than the fictional speaker in this satiric monologue written by Pro-Suffragist Marie Jenney Howe, in 1912. With insight and good humor, Howe turned the Antis’ own arguments against them. LaRue’s lively and revealing lecture puts these in historical context.

“Ladies, get what you want. Pound pillows. Make a scene. Make home a hell on earth—but do it in a womanly way! That is so much more dignified and refined than walking up to a ballot box and dropping in a piece of paper!”

Performed by professional actress Michèle LaRue and directed by Warren Kliewer, Someone Must Wash the Dishes has toured coast-to-coast, garnering reviews ranging from, “Better than the best stand-ups!” to, “I would have learned a lot more in school if she had been our teacher!”

Michèle LaRue has specialized in performances of literature from America’s Gilded Age for 30 years and tours nationally with a varied repertoire of TALES WELL TOLD. Rave reviews from nearly 500 sponsors include, “What you have to offer is priceless” (Pennsylvania); “You could hear a pin drop!” Kentucky; “Spellbound!” (Seattle); “Perfection” (New York City).

A Chicago native, Michèle has lived in Secaucus, New Jersey, for . . . oh . . . a very long time. She is a member of both actors’ unions—Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA; as a writer and editor, she has collaborated on many notable theatre books and periodicals.

For more about TALES WELL TOLD, visit http://michelelarue.com, and http://missouriwomen.org/category/women/michele-larue/ and http://www.bykennethjones.com/michele-larue-resurrects-vintage-american-voices-one-woman-tales-well-told/ 

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