Vermont Stage Company's
"Looking Over the President's Shoulder"-
Tuesday, March 17 & Thursday, March 19
at 10:30 am; Grades 8-12; 2 hours; $12.50;
Presented by Vermont Stage Company in FlynnSpace—the Flynn's intimate
150-seat theater!
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A historical drama based on the diaries of Alonzo Fields—the White House's first African-American butler—this fascinating
play provides a window directly into the lives and events surrounding the four American presidents he served: Herbert Hoover,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower. Discussing racism within the White House, reactions to the
attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, overheard conversations with visiting dignitaries (Winston Churchill, British royalty,
and others), and personal differences among the four men (Truman treated servants best), Fields takes us to the inner sanctum
of our nation's most famous address.
Links to American history, elections and political process, World War II, and racial discrimination.
VT Stan.: 3.13, 4.4, 6.5, 6.10.
Note: Grade levels are recommended based on show content and curriculum connections. Grades outside the
recommendations are welcome to attend, at the teacher’s discretion. Some special preparation may be useful.
- Sponsor
The Expeditions program of the New England
Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support
from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional
support from the state arts agencies of New England and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for support of
Noche Flamenca.
The Argosy Foundation for support of two Flynn educational initiatives relating to the quadricentennial of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival on Lake Champlain. Liz Lerman Dance Exchange’s Genome Project is funded in part by
the National Endowment for the Arts. Flynn Center Endowments—The Susan E. Quinn Memorial Fund , created in memory of Flynn volunteer Susan Quinn and held at the Vermont Community Foundation; the Flynn Jazz Endowment , initiated by a challenge grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and matched by generous community donations; the Flynn General Endowment, which received challenge grants from the Ford Foundation New Directions/New Donors program and the Argosy Foundation that were matched by generous community donations. Vermont Community Foundation, Walter Cerf Fund, Freeman Foundation, and Turrell Fund (applications pending).
Additional funding received after
April 21, 2008 will be
recognized in the 2008-09 Flynn Program Guide.
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