Beginning through "Mrs. Borden: You know what they’re sayin’ in town. About her and that doctor.”
Content Summary for Teachers
Beginning through “He’s come to worm more money out of Papa I bet.”
Lizzie Borden is visited by an actress friend a few years after Lizzie was acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. The Actress wants to know whether Lizzie “did it”; Lizzie evades the question and suggests a “game” in which they act out the events. Lizzie plays Bridget Sullivan (the Borden family’s maid at the time of the murders, who she refers to in this play as "Bridget O'Sullivan"), and recalls what Bridget said on the witness stand at the murder trial; the voice of the...
