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GEORGE WOLFE REILY
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below is a list of George Wolfe Reily's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
John Brown: Trumpet Of Freedom Lies Like TruthJohn 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.
Notes:
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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Top of PageLies Like Truth
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1st Produced:
reading at St. Marks-in-the-Bowery 2006
Organisations:
Pleasant Seat Productions
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Play/Drama
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