SHEFFIELD-The Tennessee Valley Art Association and the Ritz Theatre present First Lady of the Revolution
followed by Q&A with director of film Andrea Kalin on Friday, February 16 at the RitzTheatre in Sheffield. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and TVAA members. YOu can get tickets online (see link Below) or tby calling 256.383.0533 or at the door.
First Lady of the Revolution tells the remarkable story of Henrietta Boggs, a young Alabaman who fell in love with a foreign land and the man destined to transform its identity. Her marriage to José ‘Don Pepe’ Figueres in 1941 led to a journey of activism, exile, political upheaval and, ultimately, lasting progressive reforms. This unforgettable documentary depicts the momentous struggle to shape Costa Rica’s democratic identity, and portrays a courageous woman escaping the confines of a traditional, sheltered existence to expand her horizons into a new world.
Henrietta Boggs’s story—what she observed and endured in Central America from early in World War II through her husband’s first presidency at the start of the 1950s—is not just her own, nor is it only Costa Rica’s; this is a tale of deep historical relevance reaching even beyond one hemisphere. Through Boggs’ eyewitness accounts, this program will stimulate a new understanding of social reforms as they happen, exploring the broad historical and political themes that underlie them. First Lady of the Revolution is a singular opportunity to tell an intensely personal saga whose sheer heft and transnational scope are not mere backdrop, but the essence of the audience-mesmerizing adventure, horror, heartbreak and enchantment that defined one brave woman’s experience.”
Andrea Kalin, Director.
TICKETS
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