Professional actress Michèle LaRue will present a performance of The Bedquilt, Saturday, April 26, at 3 p.m.. A talkback will follow the 70-minute program.

This is a free performance; no tickets or registration required. The program is supported by a generous grant from the North Newton Community Foundation.

Arrive early to view a quilt display by the Emma Creek Quilt Guild. Doors open at noon.

About The Bedquilt:

Old Aunt Mehetabel is taken for granted by her New England family – until she conceives a quilt "beyond which no pattern could go." Dorothy Canfield Fisher's suspenseful tale from 1906 achingly reveals Mehetabel's journey to self-respect, universal admiration, and the realization of her ideal. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "A Quilting Bee in Our Village" introduces "The Bedquilt," and Canfield Fisher's memoir puts it in context.

About Michèle LaRue:

Michèle LaRue (actress) was married to and worked with Warren Kliewer, onstage and off for over 27 years. Their joint credits—in New York City, on the road, and in regional theatre—include William Dean Howells’ Bride Roses, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving’s Charles II, Estelle Ritchie’s A New England Legend (a take on Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter), and Gayle Stahlhuth’s adaptation of Henry James’ “The Beast in the Jungle.” Michèle and Warren toured for more than a decade with his staging of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, a solo work she continued to perform for years after his death. She still tours with their later collaboration, Marie Jenney Howe’s Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire. Encouraged by Warren’s example and mentorship, she’s created a repertoire of Tales Well Told: performances of stories by Gilded Age and Progressive Era writers. Newton Public Library will present two of those stories, as The Bedquilt, Saturday, April 26, 3 p.m. Michèle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and SAG-AFTRA. In her other profession, she has been a longtime writer and editor for New York’s Back Stage Weekly and Theatre Crafts. For Watson-Guptill among others, she’s edited books ranging from Memories of a Munchkin to Richard Pilbrow’s brilliant A Theatre Project.