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NORMAN THOMAS MARSHALL
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Norman Thomas Marshall is a veteran of thirty-two years as a professional actor. He has participated in more than three hundred productions- stage, film, television and radio- as actor, producer or director. Marshall has shared the stage and screen with such notable preformers as F. Murray Abraham, Raul Julia, Moses Gunn, Bette Midler, Peter Reigert, Burt Reynolds, Telly Savalas, Barbara Streisand and Fritz Weaver. He has also appeared numerous times in a variety of daytime television dramas and is a familiar voice for some of the animated spots shown on the popular children's TV program Sesame Street.
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John Brown: Trumpet Of FreedomJohn Brown: Trumpet Of Freedom
Synopsis:
Mr. Marshall portrays the legendary Abolitionist and 30 other Civil War period characters. Early in the morning of his last day on Earth, the day that he will hang by the neck until dead, John Brown writes a farewell letter to his compatriots in the Abolitionist Movement. In the letter, he registers his outrage and horror at his first seeing an African Slave, starved and naked and chained to a post and beaten bloody with an iron shovel for the offense of stealing a crumb of decent food. In the passion of that moment, he vows to God to rectify the injustice, and wage war against the government that sanctions this abomination. He further ruminates on his guerilla actions against the pro-slavery militias in Kansas and his attack on the Harper's Ferry Arsenal with his ragged "army" of nineteen men. The play looks deeply into the conscience of a man who commits violent acts against those whom he deems to be guilty of grave sins against God's Law. It reiterates in powerful, graphic detail the age-old question, "Does the means justify the end?", no matter how brutal the means and how laudable the end.
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written by George Wolf Reily And Norman Thomas Marshall
1st Produced:
Symphony Space, NY 2004
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Genre:
historical Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: playing 31 characters
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