Fri 3/24/23 9:00pm
Sun 3/26/23 6:00pm
One Last Night with Mary Maclane
by Nora Bonner
Nora Bonner performs her original-one woman acoustic rock musical, based on the life and mysterious death of Mary Maclane (1881-1929), a historical outcast famous for a diary she published at nineteen, in 1901. Ferocious, hilarious, Faustian, Maclane’s music testifies to the tormented relationship she has with her English teacher before finding her long standing devotion to the Devil. In fact, she attributes her success to the Devil Himself, after her first book, I Am Mary Maclane, sold 100,000 copies in its first month. Now, at the age of 48, Maclane attempts a rip-roaring self-tribute, so that she might remain in public consciousness before her “Darling Devil” comes to claim her for an untimely death.
Nora Bonner
Nora earned her BFA in theater performance from the University of Michigan in 2004, before she spent a couple of years performing professionally around the Metro Detroit area at theaters as the Boarshead, Planet Ant, Performance Network, and others. Since then, she's been writing and performing her original music while studying creative writing at the graduate level, though she did return to the stage to play Hermia in the Southern Shakespeare Festival’s outdoor run of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She currently lives in Atlanta, where she teaches writing full time at Georgia State University and part time at Agnes Scott. Her fiction has been published in a variety of literary journals and archived in Best American Non-Required Reading. More about her here: www.norabonner.com. She is proud to have been born and raised in Detroit.
