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Oh, Mary!
A frustrated First Lady wants cabaret, not presidential duty.
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The story
Mary Todd Lincoln is reimagined as a foul-tempered, heavy-drinking would-be cabaret star trapped in the White House while her husband attends to the Civil War. Her thwarted theatrical ambitions, unhappy marriage and consuming self-absorption drive a deliberately inaccurate version of history in which personal melodrama overwhelms national crisis.
In the room
Cole Escola's one-act comedy uses farce, drag, period melodrama and blunt modern language, treating historical figures as vehicles for escalating absurdity rather than sober biography.
Good fit if you like
revisionist history, queer farce, cabaret fantasies and deliberately inaccurate political comedy.
Details
- From 3 Dec 2025
- Booking until 2 Jan 2027
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