Freed
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 11, 2010
Closed Jul 3, 2010
Opened Jun 11, 2010
Closed Jul 3, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
What's it like to be the first? Charles Smith's Freed, an award-winning new play, explores this and other hot topics in the true story of John Newton Templeton, an ex-slave who was the first African-American to attend college in the Midwest, 40 years before the end of slavery. Joe Brancato directs.
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RE:Freed
excellent! fabulous acting
Reviewed by shelleymannlev
on Monday, Jun 21st, 2010
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In 1824, one-time slave John Newton Templeton (Sheldon Best) enrolled in Ohio University as the first African-American at the institution. He was brought there by school president Reverend Robert Wilson (Christopher McCann), whose motives, as presented in Charles Smith's intermittently effective but often didactic play Freed, now at 59E59 Theatres, were mixed at best.
Freed is one of those works where, rather than enact many of the scenes, the characters -- who also include Wilson's distant and bitter wife Jane (Emma O'Donnell) -- address the audience directly and exclamatorily. In the particular true-life tale unfolding on the Athens campus, they frequently tell -- instead of i[...]