The Crookston High School’s public performance of its One-Act play will be Tuesday, January 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the Crookston High School auditorium. The play, ‘The Remarkable Susan’, is a dramatization of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, after she and a number of other women attempted to vote, explains Director Beth Carlson. “In 1873, she exercised her right as she felt to vote as a citizen of the United States,” said Carlson. “At that time, she was not considered a citizen as a woman. So, they took her to trial because she, with her sisters and other women, tried to vote. But they put her on trial.”
Carlson explains that it’s an important play for her dealing with women’s rights and that 2020 also marks the 100-year anniversary, nearly 50 years after the trial of Susan B. Anthony, of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. “You always think you know your history,” said Carlson. “We take it for granted all these rights we have. Especially as women, this has really brought to focus for me that women were not considered citizens for so many years after the constitution was ratified. For me, it’s made me think – wow, how was that accepted for so many years. It was only 1920, 100 years this year that women have had the right to vote. I think this show kind of fell in our lap because it’s timely and on the minds of women with like the #MeToo movement. It’s very timely and I think timeless because the attitudes like Susan says is universal. In the beginning, she talks about the ideas, prejudice, stupidity, they are always with us no matter what era, where you are, where you live, you don’t get away from it and it doesn’t matter what time period.”
Following the public performance Tuesday, the cast will go to Ada to perform in the Sub-Section One-Act Competition. Teams that advance from each of the four sub-sections will compete in the Section One-Act Competition on Saturday, February 1 at Crookston High School.
CAST
Susan B. Anthony – Victoria Proulx
Crowley – Blaine Asman
Henry Selden – George French
Clerk – Janae Luckow
Young Girl – Zara Baig
Woman – Linnea French
Man #1 – Logan Melvie
Man #2 – Ethan Erdmann
Postmistress – Samantha Rezac
Journalists/Assistant to the Director – Eliza Meyer
Guelma – Sarah Ryan
Hannah – Ella Kiel
Mary – Anna Huck
Judge Hunt – Justin Pietruszewski
Sound and Lights – Sophia Rezac and Brianna Colborn
Director – Beth Carlson
Costume Designer – Phyllis Hagen
Set Construction – Pat Seidel
Artistic Consultant – Trey Everett
