The Geneva Historical Society is now Historic Geneva. Same mission, new name.
On Tuesday, November 2 at 6:00 p.m., local actors will perform a staged reading of a new play by Hobart and William Smith Associate Professor Chris Woodworth at the Geneva History Museum.
For several decades Geneva suffragists Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller and many of their friends gathered across Seneca Lake at a summer camp they called Fossenvue. Inspired by research conducted in the Historic Geneva Archives, playwright Chris Woodworth weaves together past and present, imagining the early days of Fossenvue and raising difficult questions about the legacies of race and suffrage activism today.
This program is free and open to the public. Masks are required for the duration of the reading for all attendees. All performers will be masked throughout. Woodworth also directs the reading, which features familiar local actors including Eleanor Stearns, Katie Snyder, Joanne Saracino, Christina Roc, and Samari Brown.
Chris Woodworth is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Part theatre historian, part theatre practitioner, she describes herself as an artist-scholar. Her research primarily addresses intersections between labor, suffrage, reproductive politics, and performance. She most recently directed the HWS Theatre/Historic Geneva production of From Beyond: Geneva’s Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour). For more information on her artistry and scholarship, visit www.thisworldofyes.com.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Auburn Public Theater.
The Geneva History Museum is located in the Prouty-Chew House at 543 South Main Street, Geneva, NY. Parking is on the street or in the Trinity Episcopal Church lot across the street.
Historic Geneva, formerly the Geneva Historical Society, tells the stories of Geneva, New York at the Geneva History Museum, Rose Hill Mansion, and Johnston House, and online at historicgeneva.org.
