46 Plays for America’s First Ladies
Written by Andy Bayiates, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Bilal Dardai, Sharon Greene, Chloe Johnston
World premiere, The Neo-Futurists, 2020
Forward Theater, Madison, WI, 2021
“In its frolic through just the first century of the republic, the crew of six performers gives us a punk Abigail Adams, a noir Elizabeth Monroe, Sarah Polk as a paper doll and Angelica Van Buren as a glove.” NYTimes
“But much of the benefit of the show, which is consistently creative, inventive and admirably avoidant of the predictable, lies in its discovery of lesser known, or now forgotten, first ladies.” Chicago Tribune
“Throughout, “First Ladies” tackles erasure on multiple levels, deftly depicting the often hair-raising lives of the first ladies, and then evoking the much harsher realities of the countless people who were erased by the first ladies themselves.” Chicago Sun Times
