America
Theatre
Description
Description
The American Civil War of 1861–65 was brutal and bitter and cost about 700,000 lives. It was fought over slavery and states’ rights, tearing the South from the North, a rift that often ran through families, particularly in border states such as Kentucky, pitting brother against brother. In this one-man performance, William Hawkins fights for the Union (North) and Thaddeus Hawkins for the Confederacy (South). Both men are sharpshooters, elite marksmen taught well by their father.
‘Boys, you listen good: ain’t nuthin’ more ‘merican than a gun.’
Before the war they are thousands of miles apart, Tad in the California gold rush and Bill at sea on a whaler out of Nantucket, but circumstances bring them into opposing armies, and those armies meet at the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, and there, on the Orange Plank Road, our story unfolds.
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$170
$220
Indoor
Local
