The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle
by Louis LaRusso II
Co-directed by Taylor Keith & Lillian Ribeiro
Featuring
Mary Lois Adshead, Kathi Carlson, Wendy Eaton, Eileen Gaughan, Angela Kariotis,
Susan Mirwis, Ellen O’ Neill, Florence Pape, Chelsea Lee Richardson, Margo Singaliese, and
Trish Szymanski
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Two Readings @ Five and Eight o'clock
The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle (‘Flora Dora Girls’, Louis LaRusso II’s pet name for his mom, Mary, and her fistful of friends), is Louis LaRusso II’s loving tribute to the strength and solidarity of the hard-working, passionate, and funny women who labored in the sweatshops together in the working-class city of Hoboken circa 1965. They come together for a weekly sewing circle, the one place where they didn’t have to be ‘ladies’. They sew, gossip, laugh, cry, fight, curse, ask big questions, tell great stories and bond – like a fist! This is Louis LaRusso II’s last hurrah to his extended family of Hoboken women who were way ahead of their times. Louis LaRusso II loved these women - all of them - and The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle will provoke heart and soul as well as lots of laughter.
Louis LaRusso II, Hoboken’s theatrical chronicler, wrote about family and working-class life lovingly and humorously depicting the Hoboken experience in 26 plays including the Tony-nominated Lamppost Reunion, perhaps his best-known "Hoboken Play."
