The Story Of Mary Surratt
by John Patrick
Synopsis
Honored by Time magazine as one of the year's ten best plays and winner of the Drama Desk and Hull-Warriner Awards, this vivid and deeply affecting drama combines humor and power in capturing the sense of black consciousness in America during a time of tr
Press Reviews
"The play shows—in highly dramatic fashion—how a woman was innocently drawn into the plot to assassinate Lincoln…[Mary Surratt was] the unfortunate victim of the hysteria and prejudice of the period…a compassionate plea for justice with meaning for all men."
— The New York Times
Publication
The Story Of Mary Surratt is a American play written by John Patrick and published by Dramatists Play Service (1947).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1947 · 72 pp
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