RED HOT PATRIOT to Open Cape May Stage's 2015 Season

Georgette Timoney, the veteran New Jersey actress, will bring to life firebrand columnist and satirist Molly Ivins, the late Texas journalist and best-selling author, in the New Jersey premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. The play opens on May 21 at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse, a restored 1853 landmark theater, in Cape May.

During her career, Ivins delighted in skewering politicians, especially those from the Lone Star State, whom she found corrupt or hypocritical or whose intelligence she found wanting. Of one member of Congress, she famously said, "If his IQ drops any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day." As a writer for the Dallas Times Herald, the Texas Observer, and the New York Times, and later as a columnist whose views were carried by 350 newspapers across the country, Ivins built a reputation as fierce critic who laced her commentary with biting humor, and she prided herself on holding officials up to "contempt and ridicule." Her first book was entitled, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? Ivins passed away in 2007.

Timoney, who says Ivins "is a hero to me, on many different levels," has performed at many of New Jersey's most prominent theaters, including the Shadow Lawn Stage in West Long Branch, where she co-starred along with Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston in Neil Simon's Chapter Two. Timoney says that she's eager to play Ivins in what's a demanding and daunting stage role. "The opportunity to perform in what's essentially a one-woman show is, for an actor, very challenging. Everything rests on your shoulders. You're the one bringing the character to life," she says, noting that she's never acted in a one-character play before. "This is a first for me. But I find it very exciting. You do your research, you prepare yourself, and you try to capture the essence of her character. And you do it all in her Texas accent."

The play opens the 2015 season at Cape May Stage, during which all six plays will have been created by women playwrights. "From Los Angeles to New York to Washington, D.C., there has been a movement to produce more plays written by women," says Roy Steinberg, artistic director at Cape May Stage. In recent years, he says, women have won several Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and other awards. In 2015, Cape May theatergoers will also enjoy plays written by Jean Kerr, Jane Wagner, Sarah Ruhl, Joanna McClelland Glass, and Marlena Lustik. "But by no means are these just plays for women," says

Steinberg. "Every one of these productions are plays I want to see."

Red Hot Patriot was written by two sisters, Margaret and Allison Engel, both accomplished journalists, and it will be directed by Cape May Stage actress, playwright and director Marlena Lustik. The play runs from May 20 through June 12. Tickets are available through capemaystage.org or by calling (609) 770-8311.

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