![]() She eats a peach part way through to keep the personal story-telling atmosphere. ![]() The lighting worked well at keepng the pace of the simple monologue style play. It all comes through very effectively with Russell’s command of the stage. The struggles and traumas that one experiences yet never speaks of. ![]() A one woman show allows her to vividly depict Texas life and growing up in the early 1900s. Russell’s voice is beautiful and commanding. It was in fact simply the level of honesty in this autobiography that allowed for My First Thirty Years to be banned. A Different Woman, however, is simply about her childhood and nothing more. The play itself is not mundane because Veronica Russell’s acting is captivating and doesn’t lead the audience to stray.īased on the summary of Gertrude Beasley’s life in the program I was expecting her to have done some outrageous things to result in her being ostracized. It is a 90 minute one woman show in which she passionately shares her story. The fact that it is a true story immediately gives it more credibility and allows for forgiveness of the mundaneness in the plot. A Different Woman: a True Story of a Texas Childhood is based on the autobiography of Edna Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years. ![]()
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