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Title: The Floating Theatre
Author: Martha Conway
Narrator: Amy Finegan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
1838. A divided nation. To save the lives of others May Bedloe must risk her own....
The Ohio River.
May Bedloe is a seamstress to her cousin, the flamboyant actress Comfort Virtue. When they board the doomed Moselle their paths cross with Mrs Flora Howard, a wealthy abolitionist and notorious opportunist. Mrs Howard is quick to lure Comfort to her cause - a cause, it seems, that has no use for quiet little May.
Casting out on her own for the first time, May lands a job on Hugo Cushin's wondrous Floating Theatre - a flatboat that sails the Ohio performing plays to the townsfolk along the way. Though shy at first, May quickly finds herself drawn into the eccentric troupe of characters aboard her new home: to sanctimonious, haughty Mrs Niffen and her browbeaten husband; to kind and gentle Leo, who steers the theatre from one riverbank town to the next; to sweet, open-hearted Liddy; and most of all, to the inscrutable Hugo himself. As the boat drifts south down the river, May gradually learns what it means to belong on her own terms, and how to fashion a family of sorts from this ragtag bunch of players.
But just as May's new life is beginning to take shape around her, the reappearance of Comfort and Mrs Howard threatens to throw everything off course. To repay an old debt, May is not only compelled to break the law but also to guard a secret which puts the fate of the whole theatre - and all her hopes for a happy future - at risk....
Members Reviews:
The Floating Theatre Troupe
The Ohio River was a boundary separating free and slave states in pre-Civil War Ohio. In 1838, May Bedloe, seamstress and dresser, boarded the steamboat Moselle with cousin Comfort Vertue. Comfort was traveling with May to St. Louis seeking new acting opportunities. Unfortunately, the Moselle was doomed when four boilers exploded. Chaos ensued and May, swimming to shore, was unable to locate Comfort. Days later, May discovered that Comfort was being housed by Mrs. Howard, a wealthy abolitionist. Mrs. Howard thought Comfort was ideally suited to speak at abolitionist rallies. After all, a trained actress could sway a crowd. Mrs. Howard convinces Comfort that May needs to be independent and would love living on her own. Nothing could be further from the truth.
May Bedloe, 22 years old, is socially backward, literal and has a straight forward nature. May derives comfort from sewing a perfectly straight hemline. She believes that a good costume helps an actor feel his or her part. Sewing makes her forget the unfamiliar, strange world she has entered. Mrs. Howard pushes May to leave for home by giving her twenty dollars for the fare. May takes the money but has nowhere to go. Looking for work along the Ohio River, she notices The Floating Theatre, a two -story flatbed boat. Thaddeus Mason, actor, opportunist and fellow Moselle survivor, convinces Floating Theatre owner, Captain Hugo Cushing to hire him as an actor and May as seamstress since May has twenty dollars to lend financially strapped Hugo for a much needed boat pump.
The Floating Theatre is a small acting troupe consisting of five actors and three actresses. They usually give one performance in each town large enough to draw a crowd, working both sides of the Ohio River, performing in free and slave states. May starts to blossom within this family of sorts. Instead of eating meals alone, she now eats family style with the cast. She has become indispensable to Hugo.
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Title: The Floating Theatre
Author: Martha Conway
Narrator: Amy Finegan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
1838. A divided nation. To save the lives of others May Bedloe must risk her own....
The Ohio River.
May Bedloe is a seamstress to her cousin, the flamboyant actress Comfort Virtue. When they board the doomed Moselle their paths cross with Mrs Flora Howard, a wealthy abolitionist and notorious opportunist. Mrs Howard is quick to lure Comfort to her cause - a cause, it seems, that has no use for quiet little May.
Casting out on her own for the first time, May lands a job on Hugo Cushin's wondrous Floating Theatre - a flatboat that sails the Ohio performing plays to the townsfolk along the way. Though shy at first, May quickly finds herself drawn into the eccentric troupe of characters aboard her new home: to sanctimonious, haughty Mrs Niffen and her browbeaten husband; to kind and gentle Leo, who steers the theatre from one riverbank town to the next; to sweet, open-hearted Liddy; and most of all, to the inscrutable Hugo himself. As the boat drifts south down the river, May gradually learns what it means to belong on her own terms, and how to fashion a family of sorts from this ragtag bunch of players.
But just as May's new life is beginning to take shape around her, the reappearance of Comfort and Mrs Howard threatens to throw everything off course. To repay an old debt, May is not only compelled to break the law but also to guard a secret which puts the fate of the whole theatre - and all her hopes for a happy future - at risk....
Members Reviews:
The Floating Theatre Troupe
The Ohio River was a boundary separating free and slave states in pre-Civil War Ohio. In 1838, May Bedloe, seamstress and dresser, boarded the steamboat Moselle with cousin Comfort Vertue. Comfort was traveling with May to St. Louis seeking new acting opportunities. Unfortunately, the Moselle was doomed when four boilers exploded. Chaos ensued and May, swimming to shore, was unable to locate Comfort. Days later, May discovered that Comfort was being housed by Mrs. Howard, a wealthy abolitionist. Mrs. Howard thought Comfort was ideally suited to speak at abolitionist rallies. After all, a trained actress could sway a crowd. Mrs. Howard convinces Comfort that May needs to be independent and would love living on her own. Nothing could be further from the truth.
May Bedloe, 22 years old, is socially backward, literal and has a straight forward nature. May derives comfort from sewing a perfectly straight hemline. She believes that a good costume helps an actor feel his or her part. Sewing makes her forget the unfamiliar, strange world she has entered. Mrs. Howard pushes May to leave for home by giving her twenty dollars for the fare. May takes the money but has nowhere to go. Looking for work along the Ohio River, she notices The Floating Theatre, a two -story flatbed boat. Thaddeus Mason, actor, opportunist and fellow Moselle survivor, convinces Floating Theatre owner, Captain Hugo Cushing to hire him as an actor and May as seamstress since May has twenty dollars to lend financially strapped Hugo for a much needed boat pump.
The Floating Theatre is a small acting troupe consisting of five actors and three actresses. They usually give one performance in each town large enough to draw a crowd, working both sides of the Ohio River, performing in free and slave states. May starts to blossom within this family of sorts. Instead of eating meals alone, she now eats family style with the cast. She has become indispensable to Hugo.