The Norris Center at Cambier Park will welcome four historical figures to tell their life stories over afternoon tea. The Afternoon Tea with Historical Women Festival will feature four different actresses performing solo plays by local playwright Janina Birtolo. A retired actress and writer, Birtolo toured steadily for twenty years performing her biographical scripts while continuing a writing career with bylines in many Florida newspapers and magazines.
“It’s like a Ted Talk, but with famous notable women-and you get tea!” says director Frank Blocker. “These are informative and entertaining plays. Live documentaries.” Blocker is best known to Florida audiences for his own solo comedies, also at the Norris Center. He directed Crocodile Fever for Laboratory Theatre and will direct the upcoming 4000 Miles at Players Circle Theatre in Fort Myers.
The Festival plays feature Abigail Adams, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Ida Tarbell, and Sister Maria Celeste, the illegitimate daughter of Galileo, a scientist herself…