Nat Turner in Jerusalem
By: by Nathan Alan Davis
Edition: Samuel French acting edition.
Series: Samuel French acting edition; Samuel French acting edition
Publisher: Samuel French; Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780573706141
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Drama; Last years; Slaves; African Americans; Prisons; Southampton Insurrection, 1831; Last years of a person's life; Southampton Insurrection (1831) fast (OCoLC)fst01127265
Description: In August 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that shook the conscience of the nation. Turner's startling account of his prophecy and the insurrection was recorded and published by attorney Thomas R. Gray. Nathan Alan Davis writes a timely new play that imagines Turner's final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, as he is revisited by Gray and they reckon with what has passed and what the dawn will bring. Woven with vivid imagery and indelible lyricism, Nat Turner in Jerusalem examines the power of an individual's resolute convictions and their seismic reverberations through time.
Notes: Play

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