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Article: Ronnie Gilbert: resurrecting Mother Jones.
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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Labor leader Mother Jones was 100 years old when she died. "Or thereabouts," Ronnie Gilbert says with an equivocating gesture. "She was quite a fibber."
Mother Jones, the one-woman show that Gilbert wrote and stars in, is a tribute to the rambunctious, passionate, stubborn organizer who became known as "the most dangerous woman in America." If Jones contributed a little to the legend herself with a few well-placed "fibs," well, who's to complain when it makes such a good story?
Sitting in Berkeley Repertory Theatre's sunny rehearsal space, Gilbert laces up the black, high-heeled granny boots she'll wear on stage. A former member of the Weavers, the ...