Pride's Crossing by Tina Howe

NAU Theatre Department presents Pride's Crossing by Tina Howe directed by Kathleen McGeever.

Tina Howe writes in her introduction to the play, "There was a young woman who swam the English Channel in 1926. A new Yorker named Gertrude Ederle. She was nineteen and she beat every record on the books." Taking her inspiration of Ederle and superimposing the "what if" on her elderly aunt, Howe created a complex heroine, Mabel Tiding Bigelow who becomes a grand figure, specific in her achievement, and universal in the sadness of the expectations of her gender. Mabel defies adversity, as many of Howe's heroines do, because they carry remarkable inner strength and find reconciliation. A triumphant and inspiring award-winning play that transcends our expectations!