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Filtering by Tag: John Brown
Marquis D. Gibson and Nicklass Aliff as Douglass and Brown (Theatre Alliance)
As much as like going to Ford's Theatre to see plays about Abraham Lincoln, going to Anacostia to see plays about Frederick Douglass is a rarer pleasure. Here's my review of Theatre Alliance's production of Idris Goodwin's The Raid, from this week's Washington City Paper.
Reviewed in this week's Washington City Paper: Gabrielle Fulton's Uprising, about Osborne Perry Anderson, who wrote the only first-hand account of the doomed 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry led by abolitionist John Brown. In this "rolling world premiere" at Alexandria, Virginia's MetroStage, a mix of Negro spirituals and original songs power Fulton's story of a romance between Anderson — a fugitive for his role in Brown's raid — and a Pennsylvania field hand named Sal.
Some wonky characterization aside, I found it to be a powerful and not-glib exploration of heroism and sacrifice. My review is here.
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