Due to a demand for a second performance, playwright and Iowa State professor Jane Cox has once again agreeed to present her drama, Clara Schumann: Liebe und Leben.

Clara Schumann: Liebe und Leben, was first performed at Iowa State University on March 22, 1996 before a standing-room only crowd. The drama is a celebration of a 19th-century figure who succeeded as a performer, editor and composer while simultaneously raising seven children.

“It’s always good to look back on women who came before us and to give tribute to women who have paved the way,” Sue Haug head of the ISU Music Department said in regard to the drama’s performance.

In the drama, Cox focuses on the life and music of Clara Schumann. Haug plays Clara, the concert pianist, and Jean Thomas, professor of voice and involved in the Music Antiqua, plays Jenny Lind, the assisting artist. Cox plays the role of Clara Schumann.

The performers will present all aspects of Clara Schumann’s life, concentrating on her life as a composer.

Cox wrote this drama as a one-woman show, which she based on the letters and diaries of Clara and Clara’s husband, Robert Schumann. Cox says that a one-woman show allows “accurate insights into her thoughts.”

Cox not only used the individual letters and diaries of Clara and Robert, but she also used their marriage diary, which Clara and Robert wrote together.

Cox, in the role of Clara Schumann, looks back on her life as a child prodigy, wife, mother, daughter, editor, concert artist, composer and colleague of other talented artists.

Haug and Thomas also add to the presentation of Clara Schumann by showing her musical and artistic abilities. The drama, concentrating on her years when Clara was outstanding as a composer, describes and illustrates the 60 years of Clara’s creative life.

The goal of Clara Schumann: Liebe und Leben, meaning Clara Schumann: Love and Life, is to gain deeper insights about the changing role of women in music.

More information on the life of Clara Schumann is available at Parks Library at Iowa State, the Des Moines public library, and the Ames library.

All ages and genders can take an interest in the drama because of the issues that people have to face in their lives.

Clara Schumann: Liebe und Leben, is described by Thomas as “a music theater with classical music,” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the ISU Music Hall Recital Hall.

The tickets for this performance are on sale in 149 Music Hall, by mail or at the door. Adult tickets are $10 and student and children tickets are $5.