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Women Great of Heart
Women Great of Heart is a deeply moving one-woman show about two Alabama women who were leaders in political reform issues, Birmingham suffragist Pattie Ruffner Jacobs and Montevallo educator Dr. Hallie Farmer. The play dramatizes key moments in the fight for voting rights in Alabama, first Ruffner's long campaign for the ballot for women, and later Dr. Farmer's lifelong pursuit of such reforms as a repeal of the poll tax and replacement of the racist Alabama constitution of 1901. These women's lives are testimony to the importance of voting and the significance one person can have in bringing about social change.
Bette Yeager has given award-winning performances in such plays as Crimes of the Heart, Noises Off, Steel Magnolias, Cloud 9, and Terra Nova. Several years ago, she first tried her hand at one woman shows, and has since toured two of them, her own adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s essay, A Room of One’s Own, and Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. Those experiences, combined with Yeager’s personal search for the stories of unknown women, led to the creation of Women Great of Heart, her first original play.