Thinking Inside the Box

A play written by Lori Strelecki and starring Ventnor Local and Professional Stage Artist Patricia Durante

About this Event

“Inside the Box, from Her Perspective” brings to life the memories of three women who were present at the Fords Theater on the evening of April 14, 1865 - the night President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Laura Keene, the leading actress in that evening’s production of “Our American Cousin”, and

the first female to own and manage a theatre in the U.S., sets the scene.

Mary Todd Lincoln, the nation’s First Lady, then shares her perspective of the events that

evening, and of life leading up to, and in the aftermath of her husband’s M**der.

Clara Harris and her fiancee, Major Henry Rathbone were the Lincolns guests at the theatre

that night. Clara shares her perspective with us as the innocent witness to one of our country’s

most horrific tragedies.

About the playwright: Lori Strelecki is an historian, President of the Pike County Historical

Society, and Managing Director of The Columns Museum, in Milford Pennsylvania. Lori has

written several historical plays which have been performed at historical societies and in theaters and museums across NJ, NY and PA.---Doors open at 7:30 P.M.Curtain at 8 P.M.Theatre is on 3rd floor from Hotel Lobby and 4th floor from the Parking Garage

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