Free performances of the compelling 1892 drama "The Yellow Wallpaper" will return to the Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site during March,  May, June and July due to public demand following a highly successful three-performance stint at the home during the First Night Springfield celebration.
 
"We were thrilled with the public response to the First Night performances at the Lindsay Home, and we've had numerous people asking when we'd bring the show back," said Vachel Lindsay Home Site Manager Jennie Battles.  "I'm pleased that our extended partnership with Over the Moon Productions will allow us to offer a total of 16 more performances."
 
"The Yellow Wallpaper" will be performed at the Vachel Lindsay Home March 5 and 6, May 7 and 8, June 4 and 5, and July 2 and 3.  Performance times are 6 and 8 p.m., and since seating is limited, reservations must be made by calling (217) 524-0901.  Reservations will be accepted on voice mail.
 
            "The Yellow Wallpaper" by author Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health.  The story is told through the secret journal entries of a narrator whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer.  She is confined to a room with bars on the windows, a gate across the stairs and yellow wallpaper for what the husband calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women of that period.  To keep the setting authentic, the performance will take place upstairs at the Vachel Lindsay Home.  The performance is not suitable for small children.
 
            "The Yellow Wallpaper," directed by Springfield's Kevin Purcell, stars Aasne Vigesaa who has most recently appeared in Over the Moon's "Shakespeare Shorts" at Lincoln's New Salem and several recent productions at the Hoogland Center for the Arts.

 

Over the Moon Productions, Inc. is an Illinois non-profit corporation. For more information, visit the website www.overthemoonproductions.org.