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We Can't Reach You, Hartford
An investigative history of the Hartford Circus Fire of July 6th, 1944. Nominated for a Fringe First at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Daguerreotype
In the twilight of his life, famed photographer Matthew Brady must choose between the life he has built and the legacy he wants to leave behind.
Tone Clusters
Renowned prose author Joyce Carol Oates explores honesty, perspective, and denial through one couple's harrowing attempt to save the person they love
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
We are the Zeitgeist
In anticipation of Daguerreotype (yeah, right...), U.S. News & World Report published two articles on Mathew Brady last week:

No Fortune for the War's Famous Photographer

But Did He Really Take the Pictures?

The articles don't really reveal anything we didn't already know (probably because they talked to the same scholars whose books I used in my research), but it's a relief to read something that completely affirms the importance of everything our play is about: the struggle between history and celebrity, the differing sensibilities of Brady and Gardner, the sorrow of Brady's final days. These articles also mean that some of our audience (assuming here that some of our audience reads U.S. News & World Report) will now have a passing familiarity with dear old Mathew. But really, it's just fun to say that we got there first.
Eat it, mainstream print media.

(thanks to Dr. Linda Ellen Hillman Chayes, official mother of the American Story Project, for finding the articles)
posted by stephen @ 11:53 PM  
1 Comments:
  • At 12:52 PM, Blogger Elissa said…

    ellen kozlov, maker of the raffle boxes, stuffer of envelopes and cutter of foam board (in order to protect her little one's clumsy fingers) would like to be included in the title of "official mother of the american story project"

     
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