Looking Over the President's Shoulder
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 3, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
Opened Dec 3, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
"Do not smile or indicate any interest in the conversations you may overhear."
With those instructions from Mrs. Herbert Hoover in 1931, Alonzo Fields began serving his country. And what service it was: As the first African-American White House Chief Butler in history, Fields witnessed momentous events, both public and private. Before there was "The West Wing" there was Alonzo Fields, whose story is told with humor and warmth in Looking Over The President's Shoulder, by James Still.
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The set, sound, and lighting are the main events at Merrimack Repertory Theatre's production of the one-man play Looking Over the President's Shoulder. James Still's regional theater favorite about the butler who served four U.S. presidents is a bland collection of historical facts with more emphasis on the White House building and place settings than development of the hero's inner life or his unique perspective on world events.
The protagonist, Alonzo Fields (Keith Randolph Smith), is clearly an intelligent and multitalented man, but the playwright gives him nothing to say about the bombing of Hiroshima, the end of the Second World War, and other pivotal moments he heard discussed in the [...]