The Last of Mrs Lincoln January 31, 2009

Mary Todd Lincoln was beset by a series of unhappy events in the years following her husband's tragic assassination. Disturbed by still persistent rumors that she had hampered the Union cause and deeply grieved by the untimely death of her beloved son Tad, she was briefly committed to a mental institution. But, as the play so eloquently makes clear, Mary Lincoln was also a woman of great courage and compassion. Told through a sequence of varied and theatrically brilliant scenes, the play is both a true and touching portrait of a remarkable and much maligned woman.