Summary
Uzo Aduba is Hannah, who is'escaping slavery with her young daughter Jessa. Hyacinth Tauriac brings to the role (alternately performed by Alarma T. Logan) the same gravity and directness diat made her so luminous as Raynëll in the Huntington's recent production of "Fences."
Apparitions also emerge in the theatre's wreadi-draped balconies, where candles flicker to evoke die constellations that guide fugitive slaves north. As the Lincolns remember dieir son Willie, who died as a child, a small boy appears on a balcony in a Union jacket and silently moves his arms and hands as if tapping a drum. The fermiliar holiday figure of a toy soldier evokes the coundess sons lost to war. The balcony also eerily resembles die presidential box of Ford's Theatre, die scene of Lincoln's assassination four mondis later.Shortly before last year's world premier of "Civil War Christmas" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, [Paula Vogel] wrote, "Where are the American 'Christmas Carols'?" Look no further than the Boston University Theatre for a magnificently American holiday pageantSee the full content of this document
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An American Christmas Carol
An American Christmas carol
The Civil War and Christmas are laden with musical and story-telling traditions. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has woven the two into a distinctly American holiday pageant, "A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration."Directed by Jessica Thebus, the Huntington Theatre Company produ...See the full content of this document
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