"First"

The Nantucket Performing Arts Center presents “First,” written by Kate Walbert and directed by Carolyn Cantor. Tony Award Winner Judith Ivey stars as Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, in a riveting solo play inspired by her life. It is the winter of 1968, and Rankin prepares to return to Washington, reflecting on her groundbreaking 1916 election and a lifetime of defiance. An extraordinary and complicated figure comes into sharp focus. More than a century later, her story does not just resonate, it lands like a warning.