The Theater Arts Department at UC Santa Cruz proudly presents their newest production, "Machinal" by Sophie Treadwell. Faculty director Kirsten Brandt and a student cast bring life to this ground-breaking 1928 drama inspired by the infamous murder trial of Ruth Snyder, a New York housewife accused, along with her lover, of killing her husband, and were were convicted and executed by electric chair in January of 1928, with Snyder becoming the first woman executed in New York state in the twentieth century. "Machinal" was first produced on Broadway in the fall of 1928, and event starred a young Clark Gable.
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The Theater Arts Department at UC Santa Cruz proudly presents their newest production, "Machinal" by Sophie Treadwell. Faculty director Kirsten Brandt and a student cast bring life to this ground-breaking 1928 drama inspired by the infamous murder trial of Ruth Snyder, a New York housewife accused, along with her lover, of killing her husband, and were were convicted and executed by electric chair in January of 1928, with Snyder becoming the first woman executed in New York state in the twentieth century. "Machinal" was first produced on Broadway in the fall of 1928, and event starred a young Clark Gable.
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