Interesting Day at the Old Surratt Hacienda

[Thomas Kearney]

Don't be to hasty Thomas, can you take a guess as to what the final scene might be?

BettyO is a stickler for realism and detail.
Just how long can you hold your breath?

Payne responding "you know best captain" when Christian Rath said he wanted the conspirators to die quickly. I can hold my breath for 15 seconds, that's faster than Secretariat.

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I think Betty herself should and would portray him the best. And she'd be well in line with great 19th century actresses like Sarah Bernhardt portraying male leads:
http://theconversation.com/tackling-gend...lets-31268

(In Shakespeare's days it went v.v., all females - and females who, in the course of the play, played men for camouflage - were portrayed by "boy players" who often were adults:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_player )

Eva, I did school plays and did a very good portrayal of the dog in Officer Buckle And Gloria for a children's theater program. I'm a perfect candidate for Lewis Payne. Headshot is my avatar!

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I guess my forty-one years at Surratt House are wearing me down,

Laurie - I had no idea that you started at Surratt House when you were 4 years old!

Yep, we older Boothies were child prodigies in history.

I was nine and was a child prodigy. It's nice to see I'm not the only former child prodigy on this chat room!

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Thanks, ya'll! This will definately be fact-based - very little if any liberties taken....

And play writing is totally different from writing a book - it's much more complex.

I think this year's entertainment at the conference would be good if we had the one man show go after this excellent representation of Mary Surratt:

https://boothiebarn.com/2016/06/18/bewar...whistling/