The suffragette’s murder

BY SANDY RUSTIN

DENVER CENTER, KILSTROM STAGE

2025

THE MAYHEW BOARDING HOUSE

MRS ADAMS AND MISS ADAMS IN SEANCE SASHES, MR ORTON TUCKED UNDER STAIRS

MRS. MAYHEW AND MR. JENNINGS

THE CONSTABLE INTERVIEWS MR. ALBRIGHT

WE HAVE TO GET THIS PRINTING PRESS OUT OF THE HOUSE!

MRS. ADAMS HAS A POINT DURING PRINTING PRESS LAZZI

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

MISS ADAMS PERFORMS THE SEANCE

THE CAST AROUND THE SEANCE TABLE

I'D LIKE YOUR VOTE, JOSEPH

DIGITAL MODEL - VIEW ONE

DIGITAL MODEL - VIEW TWO

DIGITAL MODEL - VIEW FOUR

DIGITAL MODEL - VIEW FIVE

DIGITAL MODEL - VIEW SIX

Directed by Margot Bordelon

Set Design: Reid Thompson

Costume Design: Beth Goldenberg

Lighting Design: Marika Kent

Sound Design: SInan Rafik Zafar

Photographs: Jamie Kraus Photography

Actors: Megan Hill, Gareth Saxe, Matthew Boston, Rowan Vickers, Linda Muggleston, Annie Abramczyk, Curtis Wiley, Kevin Isolda

Sandy Rustin’s melo-drama-comedy is set in an 1857 Boarding House on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As tenants prepare for a secret women's suffrage gathering, an unexpected visit from a constable disrupts their plans when a murder occurs. To evade suspicion, the eclectic group must concoct an elaborate ruse, which unveils deeper examinations of early American suffrage movements and the political forces that sought to silence feminist voices.

The play asks for a staircase and a visible second story, as well as farce-like entrances and exits in a realistic townhouse setting. It was placed in Denver Center’s Kilstrom Theater, normally a theater in the round. We removed a seating section and essentially converted the space into a thrust configuration to accomodate the needs of the play. Not pictured are additional scenic units with a parlor window and a kitchen door that were placed in the voms of the space.