the Production
MARTHA MITCHELL
In Mostly Her Own Words

A One-Act Monologue with Music: By Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
Music: By Jean Ives Ducornet, Marie Buigues, and Joan Faber
Actor: Geralyn Horton
Director: June Lewin
Pianist: Joan Faber

In 1973, a year after the break-in, Martha Mitchell, 55, tells her side of the Watergate story. She traces her life from the blissful early days of marriage to John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General, through her colorful glory days as "Martha the Mouth", to her downfall as the much maligned "Cassandra of Watergate." Nixon later said, "Without Martha Mitchell, there never would have been a Watergate."

Martha Mitchell has been performed at Playwrights Platform and Theatre Lobby in Boston, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre Center Philadelphia, as well as at Tufts University and the University of Connecticut.

The Scotsman, Scotland's National Newspaper, wrote:
"Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro pulls no punches in her frighteningly revelatory script of an era in US history that must go down as one of the most corrupt and shocking. No less shocking was the ruination of a principled woman. Ms. Horton lovingly, painfully and vehemently plays her a just and moving homage."

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