2005 Postcard for “Soliloquy for a Seamstress”

This play has a history. In 2001, I wrote and performed a one-person play: “LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to the Fair Sex—Unfair Victims” comprised of three scenes. In scene two, an Italian immigrant seamstress Sarafina Saracino shares drudgery and dreams with her younger sister unaware they are about to perish in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. In 2005, I wrote a one-act one-person play about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire incorporating the factory scene and adding five additional scenes with the characters of Mama Saracino and the eyewitness reporter William Gunn Shepherd.