LIZZIE BORDEN LIVE, a one-woman show, written and performed by Jill Dalton, directed by Jack McCullough with incidental music by Larry Hochman, is set in 1905, Fall River, MA, thirteen years after the unsolved murders of Andrew Borden, a wealthy businessman and his wife, Abby. The youngest daughter, Lizzie Borden, the only suspect of the crime, was subsequently tried and acquitted only to become the most notorious woman of her day.
Emma, her loyal sister and confidante, has recently moved out of their beautiful, grand Victorian home, Maplecroft, due to a dispute over the "carryings on" in their home. Too many late night parties with theatricals perhaps. The reporters who plagued Lizzie's life during the trial are back with a vengeance ready to once again make up and misconstrue whatever they need to get the story.
Spend an intimate afternoon with Lizzie as she speaks out for the first time about: the bad mutton, prussic acid, handleless hatchet, burned dress, betrayed confidences, morphine injections, confused inquest testimony, newspaper lies, dead reporter, bungled investigation, double murder reenactment, to her grand parties, European tour, and the relationships with her miserly father, overbearing stepmother, mouse of a sister and the stunning beauty and great Shakespearean actress, Nance O'Neil.
Lizzie, a far cry from the monster the press has made her out to be, reveals her deep hunger for living and desperate need to reinvent herself. Did she or didn't she do it? You decide.
Emma, her loyal sister and confidante, has recently moved out of their beautiful, grand Victorian home, Maplecroft, due to a dispute over the "carryings on" in their home. Too many late night parties with theatricals perhaps. The reporters who plagued Lizzie's life during the trial are back with a vengeance ready to once again make up and misconstrue whatever they need to get the story.
Spend an intimate afternoon with Lizzie as she speaks out for the first time about: the bad mutton, prussic acid, handleless hatchet, burned dress, betrayed confidences, morphine injections, confused inquest testimony, newspaper lies, dead reporter, bungled investigation, double murder reenactment, to her grand parties, European tour, and the relationships with her miserly father, overbearing stepmother, mouse of a sister and the stunning beauty and great Shakespearean actress, Nance O'Neil.
Lizzie, a far cry from the monster the press has made her out to be, reveals her deep hunger for living and desperate need to reinvent herself. Did she or didn't she do it? You decide.