DESCRIPTION
Explores the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Set in 1801 during Jefferson's first presidency, the play is an imaginative recreation of a complex, vital Sally Hemings who refuses to be identified merely as a mistress and a conflicted Jefferson forced to decide how to deal with a scandal threatening his presidency. All scenes take place at Monticello. The play dramatizes the reactions of the Monticello household-Jefferson himself, his married daughter Patsy Jefferson Randolph, Sally Hemings, and her mother Betty Hemings-to the scandal caused by James Callender's public revelation of a sexual relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings. The play raises fundamental questions about American politics and private life while telling, a story two centuries old whose fascination seems only to grow in the twenty-first century.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Seaton, Sandra
Published: 05/10/2019
Publisher: East End
ISBN: 9780996815253
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| Color: |
Blue, Purple, White |
| Size: |
20, 24 |
| Material: |
100% Polyester |
