Old North Church in Boston played a pivotal role in the nation's fight for independence and has continued to be an active house of worship for 300 years.
The play at Old North Church will reimagine the American Revolution and the everyday impact it had on American familiesOld North Church played a pivotal role in the nation's fight for independence and has continued to be an active house of worship for 300 years.
The play opening Thursday is set just hours before two men hung two lanterns in the church's bell tower on April 18, 1775 — to signal that British soldiers were heading across the Charles River, and to Lexington and Concord. The event has been immortalized in the line"One if by land, and two if by sea" in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1860 poem"Paul Revere's Ride."Sign up for NECN newsletters.
One of the characters is Minister Mather Byles Jr., who remains loyal to the British crown while another, vestry member Capt. John Pulling Jr., is an ardent Patriot, and one of the two men who would hang the lanterns in the tower.Gabridge is the producing artistic director of Plays in Place, an organization that works with historic sites and cultural institutions to create site-specific plays and presentations.
It's a message that Gabridge took to heart. The three people in the play are not fictional characters; they were real people. They walked the floors of the church's sanctuary, where the play will be performed, and sat in the pews where the audience will sit. Nathan Johnson, the actor who plays Cato, says it is one of the most important projects in which he's been involved.
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