Nat Turner in Jerusalem / by Nathan Alan Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Nathan Alan, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Samuel French acting edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.

Enslaved persons.

Last years of a person's life.

Courtland (Va.)--Drama.

Courtland (Va.).

United States.

Virginia--Courtland.

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831--Last years--Drama.

Turner, Nat.

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831--Drama.

Enslaved persons--United States--Drama.

African Americans--Drama.

African Americans.

Prisons--Drama.

Prisons.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831--Drama.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.

Genre:

Biographical drama.

Historical drama.

Acting editions.

Drama.

Playscripts.

Physical Description:

60 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Samuel French acting edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Samuel French, [2017]

Summary:

In August 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that shook the conscience of the nation. Turner's startling account of his prophecy and the insurrection was recorded and published by attorney Thomas R. Gray. Nathan Alan Davis writes a timely new play that imagines Turner's final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, as he is revisited by Gray and they reckon with what has passed and what the dawn will bring. Woven with vivid imagery and indelible lyricism, Nat Turner in Jerusalem examines the power of an individual's resolute convictions and their seismic reverberations through time.

Notes:

Play

2 men.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780573706141

057370614X

OCLC:

1005398670

Publisher Number:

99976722244