Someone Must Wash the Dishes : An Anti-Suffrage Satire

About this event

Directed by Warren Kliewer, this anti-Suffrage satire written in 1912 is performed in the modern age, complete with period appropriate clothing and a question and answer session afterward.

Many women fought against getting the vote, but none with more charm, prettier clothes—and less logic—than the fictional speaker in this satiric monologue written by Pro-Suffragist Marie Jenney Howe, in 1912.

With insight and good humor, Howe turned the Antis’ own arguments against them. Michèle LaRue’s lively and revealing lecture puts these in historical context.

“Ladies, get what you want. Pound pillows. Make a scene. Make home a hell on earth—but do it in a womanly way! That is so much more dignified and refined than walking up to a ballot box and dropping in a piece of paper!”