When
Saturday September 24, 2016 at 5:00 PM PDT-to-
Sunday October 2, 2016 at 8:00 PM PDT
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Women's Museum of California2730 Historic Decatur Rd
#103
San Diego, CA 92106
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The Women's Theater Festival - The Last Flapper
THE LAST FLAPPER
WRITTEN BY: WILLIAM LUCE
DIRECTED BY: HAL BERRY
This is not the story of Scott Fitzgerald. This is the story of Zelda, beautiful, talented in her own right and vulnerable to mental illness that would have been obvious even in her youth. But, married to the insecure, temperamental and alcoholic Fitzgerald, her illness quickly manifested itself on a much larger stage. Eventually, she would be diagnosed with Schizophrenia and possibly bi-polar disorder.
This was the era of the expatriation of American talent to Paris. Great artists went to associate with world artists such as Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso and feel freer to work and create. The Fitzgerald’s went too and living on the French Riviera, Scott would continue writing his tale of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Once again, he modeled Daisy after his Zelda. The Great Gatsby, as many of his works, prophesized not only the history of the twenties, but it’s inevitable and dramatic end with the crash of Wall Street in the fall of 1929.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WILLIAM LUCE
He may not be as well-known as Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams, but William Luce has been a successful playwright for decades. He is credited with a specialty for one-person plays. His success in theater, brought him additional work in Hollywood primarily for television with his screenplays for CBS, The Last Days of Patton starring George C. Scott and Eva Marie Saint and The Woman He Loved with Jane Seymour.
In his career, he has written one-person plays for actress Julie Harris including the heralded The Belle of Amherst. Other Harris plays include Bronte, Lilian and Lucifer’s Child. For actor Christopher Plummer, he wrote the 1997 Broadway play Barrymore.
It was 1984, when his work Zelda premiered Off-Broadway starring Olga Bellin. Luce then re-titled the play, The Last Flapper, directed by Charles Nelson Reilly and starring Piper Laurie.