Labeled “wicked” when it debuted in Manhattan, and “side-splitting” in Cape May, "Someone Must Wash the Dishes"  has convulsed audiences from Connecticut to Texas to Washington State.

Part One of Someone Must Wash the Dishes was written in 1912, by Marie Jenney Howe, a prominent pro-Suffragist and Unitarian minister. In her “An Anti-Suffrage Monologue,” Howe satirizes arguments seen as accurate in her day, which are laughable in ours. Her fictional “Anti” sincerely believes being a “womanly woman” will keep the Home intact and save the Nation from anarchy. “The character is charming, obsessed, oblivious—stylish in her wardrobe, but muddled in debate. What her husband tells her goes in one ear and out her mouth,” laughs her portrayer, professional actress Michèle LaRue.

This program had been previously planned as part of the 19th Amendment anniversary celebration in 2020. It is funded in part with a grant from the Clinton Cultural Council.