On Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. the Leach Library will
host Isabella Stewart Gardner, as she is brought vividly to life by character re-enactor,
Jessa Piaia.
Ms. Piaia studied performance at London’s Oval House Theatre
and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She works at the Harvard School for Engineering
and Applied Sciences. Research for this
program was conducted at many different institutions including The Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum.
The drama is set in 1910, seven years after the opening of
Fenway Court, the house-museum which Mrs. Gardner designed and built for her
extensive art collection, and willed to the City of Boston upon her
demise. Mrs. Gardner was a recognized
leader of Boston’s emerging salon scene, and Ms. Piaia with characteristic
verve and candor, relates episodes about Gardner’s luminous circle of family
and friends, relives journeys to exotic lands, and shares other potentially
scandalous encounters.
This presentation is free and open to the public with
seating limited to the first 90 individuals. It will be held in the library’s
lower-level meeting room. Light refreshments will be served.
1 comment:
Thank you for scheduling. I love historical portrayals -- looking forward to the program...
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