Details

Employing excerpts from Lincoln's thoughtful letters, powerful speeches and his witty anecdotes, two actors relate the story of Abraham Lincoln's political career from his humble beginnings to becoming arguably the greatest US president the world has ever known. In a pseudo-documentary style, the fictional journalist ‘Scribe', modelled on Emily Briggs, the first female press correspondent to report from the White House, leads us through the tumultuous years surrounding the American Civil War and the emancipation of slaves. A story made all the more poignant with the election of Barack Obama, 200 years after Lincoln's birth and sworn into office on Lincoln's Bible.

Cast/Performers

Andrew Hodson (Abraham Lincoln), Edie Campbell (Scribe)

Creatives/Company

Author: Hugh Steadman Williams
Company: LynchPin Productions Theatre Company
Director: Elisabeth Tooms