Join the Great Neck Library for an afternoon of music and theatre with local Great Neck performers and playwrights.
“A Shadow of Her Own” is a fictional account of the mudslinging and corruption of the 1896 U.S. Presidential election played out in New York City. It enacts a feminist manifesto aimed at male chauvinism, misogyny and sexual abuse, especially in journalistic circles.
The main characters are Lucian Dan Cody and Ellen Bayne Collins, loosely based on aspects of the lives of writer/journalist Ambrose Bierce and investigative journalist/author Nellie Bly.
The performance is by Joseph J. Corso Jr., who has been involved with American Musical Theater as both a writer of musical librettos and a teacher for Elderhostel/Road Scholar programs offered in California and New York from 1998 through 2019.
The performance will be at the Great Neck Library at 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck, on Sunday, Jan. 12 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Registration is required. Great Neck cardholders and residents can register online, in-person, or via phone. Non-residents are welcome as walk-ins, as space allows.
For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
