The Yellow Wallpaper

Catch a multimedia adaptationof Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1982 short story The Yellow Wallpaper at The Westchester Cultural Arts Center on Monday, October 21. Presented by What If Works, this gothic solo performance, featuring Marla Lopez as The Wife, brings Gilman’s semi-biographical tale to life, set in a time when women’s rights were severely limited.

With verbatim storytelling, The Yellow Wallpaper follows the psychological journey of a woman prescribed a “Rest Cure” in an isolated mansion following the birth of her child. As she struggles with confinement, the yellow wallpaper in her room becomes a symbol of her deteriorating mental state. This performance, supported by Homestead Center for the Arts and in association with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, brings attention to issues of mental health that remain relevant today.