Oh Mary!

Oh Mary! at Fisher Theatre - MI

History gave Mary Todd Lincoln a tragic reputation. Oh, Mary! gives a fictional version of her an outrageously bad attitude—and an entire stage on which to use it. Cole Escola's dark comedy plays with thwarted ambition and private desperation instead of trying to recreate the past. A Saturday matinee with this much comic mischief is anything but a conventional history lesson.

The character's predicament supplies the appeal: ambition and desire have little room within the role she occupies. Cole Escola uses that frustration as the starting point for a fictional dark comedy, giving a familiar historical figure a deliberately irreverent theatrical identity. For someone who enjoys an absurd character study, that is a specific reason to choose the play.

See Oh, Mary! at Fisher Theatre in Detroit on Saturday, February 27, 2027, at 2:00 PM. The one-act play runs eighty minutes and carries age guidance of fourteen and up. Make the matinee a plan with someone who shares your taste for darker comedy, and compare your responses to its imagined First Lady afterward.

Bring your sense of humor to Fisher Theatre on Saturday, February 27, 2027, at 2:00 PM. Oh, Mary! is ready to turn an ordinary Detroit afternoon into something wonderfully unruly.