Theatre lovers: forget the price of gas, the hassle of crossing the Bay Bridge, or the cost of parking, and reserve your seat for the Academy Art Museum’s Arts Express Bus trip to see Necessary Sacrifices at Ford’s Theatre in DC on Thursday, February 2.
In his fourth commission for Ford’s Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of national crisis. As Lincoln searches for a way to end slavery in the summers of 1863 and 1864, Douglass’ rhetoric and conviction challenges the president to envision a post-emancipation world. Together, the men imagine not only a unified nation but a society that brings truth to the Declaration of Independence assertion that “all men are created equal.”
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
Thursday, February 2, 2012, matinee
Cost: $75, Members; $110 Non-members
Reserve seat here
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