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Eleanor for President

A woman as Chief Executive? The 2008 presidential campaign proved it possible, yet it just might have happened more than half a century earlier.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
A woman as Chief Executive? Today's political climate makes it more likely than ever, yet it just might have happened in the last century.  

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady from 1933 to 1945, might have run for president after the death of her husband, Franklin. Many thought about it, some talked about it, a few actually suggested it. That Eleanor Roosevelt did not seek public office was of her own choosing, and chiefly reflected her own priorities as well as a sense that the time was not yet right. 

Act I of Eleanor for President briefly scans her career to a point where she might have run. Act II fictionalizes the fork in the road not taken. The net result is a unique, sometimes witty, and always insightful look at Eleanor Roosevelt and the political process.

Characters

  • Casting: 18M, 9F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Cross gender casting, Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: Eleanor Roosevelt is portrayed as three characters. From youngest to oldest: LITTLE NELL, YOUNG ELEANOR and ELEANOR.

  • YOUNG ELEANOR - Eleanor Roosevelt, in her thirties
    NARRATOR
    MOTHER - Anna Hall Roosevelt, about age 27
    LITTLE NELL - Eleanor Roosevelt, about age 5
    FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT - age 39
    LOUIS - Louis Howe, political mentor, age 50
    DELEGATES - to Democratic National Convention (men and woman)
    NEWSCASTER
    CHICAGO POLITICIAN
    NEBRASKA DELEGATE
    TEXAS MAYOR
    WILY OLD POLITICIAN
    DELEGATE 1
    DELEGATE 2
    DELEGATE 3
    DELEGATE 4
    DELEGATE 5
    MESSENGER - non-speaking
    ALBEN BARKLEY - Senator
    BOOMING VOICE - offstage
    DELEGATE 6 - a woman
    ELEANOR ROOSEVELT - in her fifties and sixties
    REPORTER
    CONSULTANT
    PARTY LEADER 1 - a man
    PARTY LEADER 2 - a woman
    CROWD - men and women, at whistle-stop
    KIWANIS PRESIDENT
    MAYOR OF FAIR PLAINS
    MISS FAIR PLAINS
    WOMAN'S VOICE
    VOICE OF ELEANOR - same as ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
    VOICE OF FDR - offstage, ghostlike voice of Roosevelt as president

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    A woman as Chief Executive? Today's political climate makes it more likely than ever, yet it just might have happened in the last century.  Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady from 1933 to 1945, might have run for president after the death of her husband, Franklin. Many thought about it, some talked about it, a few actually suggested it. That Eleanor Roosevelt did not seek public office was of her own choosing, and chiefly reflected her own priorities as well as a sense that the time was not yet right. Act I of Eleanor for President briefly scans her career to a point where she might have run. Act II fictionalizes the fork in the road not taken. The net result is a unique, sometimes witty, and always insightful look at Eleanor Roosevelt and the political process.

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