She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival - Borderland

Borderland
A new musical by Natalie Elizabeth Weiss (Book, Music, and Lyrics)

A dark comedy about Ida C. Craddock, a real-life 19th-century sexologist who claimed to be married to an angel.

The first person to put the words “female ******” in print, Ida had a bone to pick with Victorian America’s view of sexuality. Enlightened by supernatural sex with her heavenly husband, Ida empowered other married couples through a mail-order sex education program. However, when her educational literature was discovered by postal inspector Anthony Comstock, Ida was charged with “obscenity” under his namesake law: The Comstock Act. Equal parts DJ set and opera, this unorthodox musical explores Ida’s struggle for liberty and reveals surprising similarities between the polarizing politics of the 19th century and the world we live in today.

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