Cornelia Street Cafe Presents Jennifer Rawlings July 14

Award winning performer Jennifer Rawlings presents readings from her one - woman show " I Only Smoke in War Zones" - a collection of true stories from the battlefield (both at home and abroad.)

LaRue tours nationally with several one-woman plays--The Yellow Wallpaper (dramatized and directed by Warren Kliewer from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1890 feminist horror story), Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Monologue (Marie Jenney Howe's 1912 satire), Eve's Diary (Gayle Stahlhuth's adaptation of several Mark Twain stories), Places, Please, Act One, Kliewer's vibrant "poems around and about theatres," and a varied repertoire of American short stories written at the turn of the previous century. She has played over 200 performances of these productions in 12 states, from Maine to Oklahoma, Minnesota to Virginia.

In the vibrant tradition of Charles Dickens' public readings, Michele LaRue brings to life turn-of-the-century American short stories, by authors ranging from the well-remembered (Twain and O. Henry) to the undeservedly "lost" (Mary Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Edith Wyatt ...). Michele's series of Tales Well Told is your great-great-grandparents' Selected Shorts.

In this, her fourth appearance at the Cafe, Michele presents Miss Jewett's Miss Esther's Guest: a sweet summer tale of country mouse meets city mouse ... with a twist.

Rawlings will perform at 6pm.

Cover is $8 for more information visit http://www.michelelarue.com