{"id":52698,"date":"2017-08-12T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52698"},"modified":"2017-11-17T03:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:06:47","slug":"thomas-and-sally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52698","title":{"rendered":"Thomas and Sally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marintheatre.org\/productions\/thomas-and-sally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Thomas and Sally<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marintheatre.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin Theater Company<\/a><br \/>\nMill Valley, California<br \/>\nSeptember 28-October 22 (2017) | World Premiere<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Bradshaw_(playwright)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Thomas Bradshaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marintheatre.org\/productions\/thomas-and-sally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/marintheatre.org-assets\/images\/productions\/thomas-and-sally\/banner\/1718_Carousel_TandS_pb2.jpg \" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An explosive world premiere by a 2017 PEN Award winner,\u00a0<em>Thomas and Sally<\/em>\u00a0gets up close and personal with founding father <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Hemings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sally Hemings<\/a>, the enslaved woman who mothered six of his children. Playwright Thomas Bradshaw takes us behind the scenes\u2014and into the beds\u2014of American history with the Hemings-Jeffersons and the rock stars of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolution<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Franklin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abigail_Adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abigail Adams<\/a> &amp; the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marquis_de_Lafayette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marquis de Lafayette<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bradshaw\u2019s writing has been influenced by the research of many historical experts on the Jefferson and Hemings families, but the world of this play is completely his own:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thomas and Sally is a work of historical fiction. You may recognize many of the names in this play, but others are pure invention. History is highly malleable and subject to interpretation. This is my attempt to explore the essence of these characters and the world they lived in. This is a play, and I am playing with history. I hope you enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bradshaw&#8217;s plays have been produced at regional theaters in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYC<\/a> as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a>. He is currently working on commissions from the Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Foundry Theatre, as well as developing a TV series for HARPO and HBO. He is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Prince Charitable Trust Prize, the 2012 Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and this year\u2019s PEN award for an Emerging American playwright.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marintheatre.org\/productions\/thomas-and-sally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosive world-premiere commission by subversive American playwright Thomas Bradshaw, &#8220;Thomas and Sally&#8221; gets up close and personal with our country&#8217;s first prominent mixed-race family: Thomas Jefferson and his African American slave, Sally Hemings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,459,13,8,6940,20],"tags":[26597,918,26596,477],"class_list":["post-52698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-marin-theater-company","tag-sally-hemings","tag-thomas-bradshaw","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54955,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52698\/revisions\/54955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}