Written by Richard Goodman
| The facts are straightforward: Robert Todd Lincoln had his mother certified legally incompetent. He took responsibility for her financial affairs. She was committed to a mental hospital. Was she insane, or was he a greedy, cold-hearted son?. Audiences empathize with Mrs. Lincoln's struggle for a grasp on her difficult world, including pervasive voices real, and imagined. In Act II, Mrs. Lincoln sends a plea to a friend on the outside and the conditions of her confinement are called into question allowing a pioneering female attorney, a reporter, a doctor, the principle and smaller roles, the chance to develop. Freedom and redemption is given to Mrs. Lincoln and exposure to some of the less than cherished social constructs of the 19th century. . |