Interesting Day at the Old Surratt Hacienda

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(06-02-2016 07:42 PM)tom82baur Wrote:  There is a non-Facebook website.
http://www.thewanderingtheatrecompany.or...e?i=253565


Here is an interesting Playbill website that is a casting call for the play, with lots of info about it.

Here is an excerpt:
This play is a surreal, historical exploration of the trial and final days of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government. Mary's crime...? She owned and operated a boarding house that John Wilkes Booth and conspirators frequented. This play bends time jumping back and forth from the daily life of the characters leading up to Lincoln's assassination, to the trial itself. There is singing in the play although this is NOT a musical (the sound of the piece is Virginia soulful folk bluegrass, a cappella with natural percussions and tambourine - Please listen to Steel Wheels "Rain in the Valley" & "Surround Me" to get a feeling for the musical sound we are going for), we will be modernizing old Civil War songs.

This play will preview in Vermont in June, will Premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival in D.C. in July and will have a two week Off-Off Broadway run in August/September.

http://www.playbill.com/job/theatre-arti...rs-singers

Oh dear. I see that an old, outworn canard about "relationships" amidst the men is popping its head up once again. This might be part of the bad history that several of the actors were referring to.

Susan - I was also introduced to Honora Fitzpatrick as part of the ensemble not mentioned here.