October 8th – 13th in Toronto, Tickets: https://www.ticketscene.ca/series/1292/

A spiritualist, a communist, a free love advocate, and the first woman to run for President, she was dubbed Mrs. Satan. Join Adam Bailey, the multi-award-winning artist behind The Truth™, Franz Ferdinand Must Die, and The Life Henri in this thrilling exploration of the rise and fall of iconoclast Victoria Woodhull.

The Jenny Revue

Adam Bailey is in great form, as always, keeping up with his specialty in fast paced historical fiction. Following Victoria Woodhull’s life from a kaleidoscope of different perspectives and jumping throughout her life, from feminist activist to stockbroker to magnetic healer to presidential nominee, Adam keeps the energy up and ties together the threads into a coherent and engaging picture of this woman’s life.

Great for fans of historical storytelling and the uninitiated as well, this is definitely a wonderful way to start engaging with the work of a long term Fringe staple.

Josh Fidelak

Winnipeg Free Press

Following last year’s The Life Henri, which took viewers on a rapid-fire history lesson about the life of painter Henri Rousseau, Toronto’s Adam Bailey returns for another solo journey back in time.

In All Hail Mrs. Satan, Bailey recounts the real-life story of Victoria Woodhull — free-love advocate, suffrage leader and, in 1872, the first female U.S. presidential candidate. Bailey packs a lot into his hour-long performance (delivered on a minimal set of a couple of chairs and tables) with a fast-paced monologue that attempts to capture the highs and lows of Woodhull’s life and the cast of characters in her orbit.

The speed at which Bailey jumps back and forth among the narrator and many characters can be hard to follow at times as his polished writing is delivered at a breakneck pace. Woodhull is a fascinating and relatively unknown subject, and while we learn a lot about her from Bailey, one wonders whether a one-person show is the right format to tell her story.

— Ben Sigurdson

YouTube’s Gilles Michel Messier

Adam Bailey is back with yet another masterful tale of an obscure but fascinating historical figure – in this case, Victoria Woodhall, forgotten feminist pioneer and the first woman to run for US President. Bailey is in rare form this year, spinning his yarn with tremendous energy and embodying dozens of weird and wonderful characters with infectious gusto. Five stars.

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