What I liked
Ashley Ford, who attacks what she’s given with gusto, and Victoria Woodhull, who seems to have invented a really remarkable life for herself.
What I didn't like
The theatre space, which is a major barrier between the audience and the show.
The script, which is more like a solo trailer for a longer version of her life.
My overall impression
There’s a wealth of material in the self-made life of Victoria Woodhull and maybe more than one play—-but this 40-minute fragment isn’t it. It raises more questions than it resolves and skips completely her “Second Act”—-in England, with her 3rd husband. (She died there at 88!) When that play is written, ASHLEY FORD will still be the girl for the job! She fields everything that’s thrown her way, from a silly “prologue” as a modern actress “channeling” Victoria (which wastes 5 of the 40 minutes) to Victoria herself “channeling” both her younger sister and her nemesis, Susan B Anthony, too much.
The theatre space itself is unusually uninviting, a long tunnel which could have been configured more intimately that does a lot to alienate the actress from her audience. The show itself left me wanting much more and I went home to Wikipedia to find it.
