The 2004 Austrian Nobel Prize winner and agoraphobic, Elfriede Jelinek has written a monologue from the point of view of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The play is Jackie.
The New Yorker Magazine describes the play's heroine as witty, fun, funny, catty, and a paranoid nut job.
Jackie riffs for eighty minutes on the pleasures and horrors of being a Kennedy icon, and on death. Jackie is shown to drag around dummies emblazoned with the names Jack, Bobby and Ari.
Holland Taylor plays the role of former Texas Governor and famous alcoholic Ann Richards, in a new play Ann. Holland has also composed the play.
Richards was governor from 1991 to 1995 and died in 2006. She had once barked at President Bill Clinton, saying "I'm as strong as mustard gas." She is best remembered for her salty, down-home wit, and the play, according to critics, spills over with her indelible gumption, as Texan and tangy as barbecue sauce.
Jackie and Ann, both powerful women, not in the simple sense of being in positions of power, but in the broader sense of displaying the strength and courage of individuality and the humility of being fallible at the same time.
Jackie riffs for eighty minutes on the pleasures and horrors of being a Kennedy icon, and on death. Jackie is shown to drag around dummies emblazoned with the names Jack, Bobby and Ari.
Holland Taylor plays the role of former Texas Governor and famous alcoholic Ann Richards, in a new play Ann. Holland has also composed the play.
Richards was governor from 1991 to 1995 and died in 2006. She had once barked at President Bill Clinton, saying "I'm as strong as mustard gas." She is best remembered for her salty, down-home wit, and the play, according to critics, spills over with her indelible gumption, as Texan and tangy as barbecue sauce.
Jackie and Ann, both powerful women, not in the simple sense of being in positions of power, but in the broader sense of displaying the strength and courage of individuality and the humility of being fallible at the same time.
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