THE AMERICAN TRADITION

Set in Antebellum America with an absurd and Brechtian twist, fictitious characters Eleanor—cross-dressing as a white planter—and her husband, Bill—pretending to be her loyal servant—attempt to escape to the free state of Pennsylvania. Their operation is running smoothly until they meet Walsh, a drunk planter and member of the Not All Slavers organization, who steals Bill at a rest stop. Armed with a Glock-19 and her fair skin, Eleanor sets out to rescue him by any means necessary.

❝The gleefully anachronistic show…has a rambunctious punk-rock energy that’s all too rare on our increasingly sanitized stages.❞ — Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker

https://www.newlighttheaterproject.com/american-tradition