Blogrolling Margaret Fuller

So, as previously noted, I'm in one more play this summer: The Margaret Ghost, about the 19th-century feminist, journalist, social organizer, and Transcendentalist, not to mention Cambridge native, Margaret Fuller. (Performances: June 17-20 in Belmont, MA. Order tickets now. :-)

theatreatfirst originally did this play back in 2006, but 2010 is the bicentennial of Margaret's birth (in fact this past Sunday, May 23, was her actual birthday), so the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee came to theatreatfirst saying, "Wouldn't you like to revive this production for us as part of the bicentennial?" Well, sure, says we, and thus all 9 of the original cast members are reprising their roles this June!

Prior to this play, I had, as it happens, only ever heard of Margaret from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House -- her ancestral home, right across Central Square from where I used to live -- because there's a food pantry there at which I volunteered for some years. [waves to Jess, my old volunteering buddy!]

From Wicked Local (Cambridge): "Buried twice: Rediscovering Cambridge icon Margaret Fuller"
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1070015810/Guest-commentary-Buried-twice-Rediscovering-Cambridge-icon-Margaret-Fuller

From this Sunday's Globe: "A writer, thinker, and trailblazer"
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2010/05/24/a_writer_thinker_and_trailblazer/?page=full

Other dramatizations of Margaret's life include a reenactment by local character actress Jessa Piaia, and the play Charm, by Utah playwright Kathleen Cahill, which was recently premiered in Salt Lake City.

The Bicentennial festivities also include a number of exhibits and a monthly series of "Conversations" ("modeled after the “Conversations” that Margaret Fuller offered for women (and later men) in Boston in the late 1830’s and early 1840’s").

Amusingly, Victorian Trading Co. is selling a "Margaret Fuller Coat"?? Note that the body copy carefully does not say that it is actually modeled on anything Margaret personally owned or wore. >:-)
http://www.victoriantradingco.com/store/catalogimages/1a/i156552X.html

And: Never before published, the script of The Margaret Ghost is now available in a limited, commemorative edition in honor of the Bicentennial. This beautiful trade paperback (designed by gilana!) includes an Introduction by our director and an Afterword by the playwright.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-margaret-ghost/10969781

( a few more book-related notes )