[Capdist-announce] John & Abigail Adams Play This Weekend

[Bill Hickman]

PRESS RELEASE:

John & Abigail Adams

play set for Aug. 26-27

at Little Theater on the Farm

 

FORT EDWARD, NY -- William Hickman, a veteran regional actor in the Capital District in New York State, will play John Adams in Marriage of True Minds in Fort Edward performances Friday, August 26 at 7:30 p. and Saturday, Aug. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Fort Edward's Little Theater on the Farm. 

Rita Russell, another theater veteran from the Capital District, has performed in previous productions as Abigail Adams, and will again join Hickman in these Fort Edward performances. She and Hickman originated their roles in the 2004 premiere in Whitehall.  Russell, a theater director as well, was also an English teacher in Saratoga Springs.         While the premiere of the play was in July, 2004 at the unique Bridge Theater in Whitehall, NY, it has been performed by the same cast in Albany, NY and in Quincy, MA, where John and Abigail Adams lived and are buried. 

The play deals with John and Abigail Adams' love for each other and their zeal for liberty maintained throughout 10 years of the American Revolution despite seven years separation from each other because of John Adams' duties. 

Hickman is also an associate producer of the Community Action Theater Services, a professional theater company of which Martin P. Kelly, playwright of "Marriage of True Minds," is producing artistic director. Kelly has also served as artistic director during summer seasons at the Bridge Theater for the past 10 years. 

        Hickman played John Adams several years ago in Atlanta, GA in another event about the American colonial leader.

The play's title, Marriage of True Minds, is taken from a Shakespearian sonnet, and celebrates the couple's single-minded support of the revolution and of each other. Through excerpting their letters, Kelly's two-character play provides the audience with a solid glimpse of John and Abigail's involvement in the American Revolution. 

Reservations are available at 518/461-5411 or at the box office of the Little Theater on the Farm, 27 Plum Road, Fort Edward.  Further information at www.littletheater27.com
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