On Their Shoulders

How Women Won the Vote, a celebration of Women's History Month, will be held Friday, March 13th at the Cherry Center for the Arts. As part of Stories on Stage, the program will include women who fought for Women’s Rights and Suffrage, including Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and others.

Though they did not see their work finished in their lifetimes, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized women for fifty years to gain passage of a Women's Voting act. The program will also include Anthony's defense of herself at her trial for illegally registering to vote in Rochester, N.Y.; Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, both freed slaves, in their own voices as they campaign for women throughout their lives; the writer Virginia Woolf and the inspiring young Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, both making the impassioned case for liberty and education for all women and girls. And see who will trump who in the hilarious one act from the 1908 British Theater, A Chat With Mrs. Chicky, when a glittering aristocrat attempts to convince her char lady against votes for women!

Readers include: Gail Borkowski, Susan Forrest, Robert Strayer, Robert Colter and Suzanne Sturn who also directs.