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Freeman Of Color by Charles Smith
Freeman Of Color by Charles Smith
Recipient of the 2004 Jeff Award for Best New Work, Free Man of Color is the story of John
Newton Templeton, an ex-slave who was unexpectedly freed after his masters death , attended
Ohio University and graduated in 1828, thirty-five years before the end of slavery. In this play
about race, culture, and the differences between education and assimilation in America,
Presbyterian minister Robert Wilson, an avowed abolitionist and president of then fledging Ohio
University, is forced to reevaluate his abolitionist views and Templeton is forced to examine the
reason he was chosen to be the first.
Free Man of Color was commissioned by Ohio University in commemoration of its
Bicentennial Celebration. It received its world premiere production at Victory Gardens
Theater in Chicago in January 2004. In March of 2004, that production was moved to Ohio
University in Athens, Ohio, to commemorate Ohio Universitys Bicentennial.
Chicago Tribune
bold and striking new work Charles Smith an independent, strong-minded writer
able to draw audiences into their stories, but then refuses to retreat from unsentimental
resolutions.
ChicagoCritic.com
Free Man of Color by Charles Smith.Brilliant theatre reaches us through the magic
of the live stage to get us thinking about who we are by showing us who we were and where
we came from. The issues of 1824 Ohio are still relevant in the American of 2004
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560 mineral spring ave.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, RI 02860
United States
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