SAN FRANCISCO FOOTLIGHTS -

JUNE 3, 2013

 

Please join the Dramatists Guild for a staged reading of John Freed's

 

“Love Me, Fuseli:  A Play about Mary Wollstonecraft and her Circle of Friends”

 

Monday, June 3rd at 7PM

 

Tides Theatre
533 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA

 

FREE!

 

Play Synopsis:

"All revolutions begin on a stage," is a line from “Love me, Fuselii,” and this play demonstrates how that is so. But the main objective of the play is to humanize Mary Wollstonecraft -- to let her speak for herself without any "ism" attachments and dramatize how her undaunted pursuit of happiness and justice transformed her into our pathfinder as well.

Set in 1791 this two-act play is fact-based and explores the inter-influencing of Mary with William Blake, and his wife Cate, Henry Fuseli, and his wife Sophia, Thomas Paine, William Godwin and Joseph Johnson, their least known though most important mutual benefactor-publisher. It more fundamentally explores the gender expanding themes of the competing love triangles of Wollstonecraft, Fuseli and Johnson.
 

 

 

San Francisco Cast for “Love me, Fuseli”:

 

*Valerie Weak: Mary Wollstonecraft; *Serge Morel: Henry Fuseli; *Cheryl Smith: Sophia Fuseli / Act Two Stage Manager; John Freed: Joseph Johnson; Matt Heck: William Blake; Yvette DeVito: Cate Blake; Tuesday Thomas: Fanny Flute; David Long: Thomas Paine / Act One Stage Manager

 

 

For further information about the event contact:

 

Suze Allen – sallen@dramatistsguild.com

Dramatists Guild's

San Francisco Regional Representative