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Was Abe really playing "free the slave" in the Lincoln Bedroom?
  • TITLE:

    Gettysburg Addressed

    WGA: VKNA1E085CFA
  • AUTHOR(S):

    Joseph Baron Pravda

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  • TYPE:

    Stage Play

  • GENRE:

    Satire

  • SETTING:

    In and around White House Lincoln Bedroom + NYC

  • LOG LINE:

    Politics make for estranged bad fellows in this monumental farce.

  • CAST:

    7-10 characters.

  • HIGHLIGHTS:

         PRESIDENT G:
    Okay, Walt--give me your best shot.

         WALTER HOUSMANN:
    Not long after his assassination, a story floated around, giving rise to a suspicion so revolting as to have been kept concealed by the government for lo these many years.

    His advances toward the young, strapping Lincoln had been refused.

         MAN:
    Why, my son, I am thy father and thy brother.
    The boy knew his course, and finally replied, walking backwards as he did.

         BOY:
    Share a bed with ma pappy and bruther an I sure doan need me more a that!

  • AUTHOR BIO(S):

    As a former Watergate-era government attorney, Joseph brings a wealth of knowledge about Washington, DC. He was recently elected 1 of 18 playwrights nationwide to win attendance to the '06 Kennedy Center Dramatic Writing Intensive.