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4th March, 1865: On the night of his second inauguration, a few weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln meets the veteran black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the White House to discuss the prospect of extending the vote to black men who have served in the soon to be victorious Union armies.
4th March, 1965: In the White House, Lyndon Johnson, anxious to introduce a new Voting Rights Act, is briefed by his sinister and unfirable FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, on the imminent Selma to Montgomery march, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. It is a demonstration prompted by a state troopers murder of the young activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, in Marion, Alabama, following a rally in support of voter registration in Perry County.
In his ambitious new play, commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis as the centrepiece of a retrospective of his plays and films, Christopher Hampton traces a line which runs from the last days of a brutal Civil War to the...
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For Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant
Appomattox was first presented on the McGuire Proscenium Stage of the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, on 29 September 2012. The cast, in alphabetical order, was as follows:
Ely S. Parker / Chef M. Cochise Anderson
Ulysses S. Grant / Nicholas Katzenbach Mark Benninghofen
Union Guard / Jimmie Lee Jackson / John Lewis Ernest Bentley
George Wallace / Confederate Officer Mark Boyett
David Porter / James Bonard Fowler David Anthony Brinkley
Cartha Deloach / Edward Alexander Stephen Cartmell
Old Man / Cager Lee Danny Robinson Clark
Abraham Lincoln / Lyndon Baines Johnson Harry Groener
Martin Luther King, Jr / T. Morris Chester Shawn Hamilton
Viola Jackson Tonia Jackson
Robert E. Lee / Richard Russell Philip Kerr
Mary Custis Lee Karen Landry
John Wilkes Booth / John Rawlins / Lee Harvey Oswald / Jack Valenti Michael Milligan
Elizabeth Keckley / Coretta Scott King Greta Oglesby
Howell Cobb / Edgar Ray Killen Richard Ooms
Julia Grant / Viola Liuzzo Angela Pierce
Wilmer McLean / J. Edgar Hoover Brian Reddy
Mary Todd Lincoln / Lady Bird Johnson Sally Wingert
Other parts played by Sha Cage, Brian James, Joe Nathan Thomas and members of the company
Director David Esbjornson
Set Designer Thomas Lynch
Costume Designer Michael Krass
Lighting Designer Jeff Croiter
Sound Designer Scott W. Edwards
Projection Designer Sven Ortel
Dramaturgy Jo Holcomb , Carla Steen
Voice and Dialect Coach DArcy Smith
Movement Marcela Lorca
Characters
in order of appearance
1865
John Wilkes Booth
twenty-six
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, fifty-six
Frederick Douglass
late forties
Mrs Dorsey
late thirties
Mary Todd Lincoln
Lincolns wife, forty-five
Ulysses S. Grant
General in Chief of the Armies of the United States, forty-two
Julia Grant
his wife, thirty-eight
Elizabeth Keckley
modiste to Mrs Lincoln, early forties
General John Rawlins
thirty-four
Robert E. Lee
General in Chief of the Confederate Forces, fifty-eight
Mary Custis Lee
his wife, fifty-six
Brigadier General Edward Alexander
twenty-nine
General Howell Cobb
fifty
T. Morris Chester
thirty-one
A Confederate Officer
A Union Officer
First Civilian
Second Civilian
Admiral David Porter
fifty-one
An Old Woman
A Man
An Old Man
Wilmer McLean
fifty
Colonel Ely Parker
thirty-seven
A Union Captain
A Union Brigadier
1962
Lee Harvey Oswald
twenty-four
1965
A Disabled Man
A Waitress
A Chef
Jimmie Lee Jackson
twenty-six
Viola Jackson
his mother, late forties
Cager Lee
his grandfather, eighty-two
James Bonard Fowler
thirty-one
A State Trooper
Martin Luther King, Jr
thirty-six
Lyndon Johnson
President of the United States, fifty-six
J. Edgar Hoover
Director of the FBI, seventy
Cartha Deke DeLoach
Hoovers Deputy, forty-four
Nicholas Katzenbach
United States Attorney General, forty-three
Jack Valenti
Special Assistant to the President, forty-three
Lady Bird Johnson
Johnsons wife, fifty-two
Governor George Wallace
forty-five
John Lewis
twenty-five
First SNCC Man
Second SNCC Man
Senator Richard Russell
sixty-seven
Coretta Scott King
Kings wife, thirty-seven
Viola Liuzzo
thirty-nine
2010
James Bonard Fowler
seventy-six
Edgar Ray Killen
mid-eighties
Guests and servants at the White House, a Runner, a Union Guard, Marines, Residents of Richmond, Virginia, Couriers, a Medical Officer, an Orderly, Grants staff, Lees staff, a Trooper, Looters, Customers in Macks Caf, State Troopers, Members of the Congregation of Zions Chapel, Members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Selma-to-Montgomery Marchers, a Prison Guard
The play is designed to encourage cross-casting between the acts. Obviously, this will generally proceed according to the directors taste and requirements, but in the original production at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, the roles were distributed as follows:
Abraham Lincoln / Lyndon Johnson
John Wilkes Booth / Lee Harvey Oswald / John Rawlins / Jack Valenti
Ulysses S. Grant / Nicholas Katzenbach Robert E. Lee / Richard Russell
Edward Alexander / Cartha DeLoach Howell Cobb / Edgar Ray Killen
T. Morris Chester / Martin Luther King Jimmie Lee Jackson / John Lewis
David Porter / James Bonard Fowler Old Man / Cager Lee
Wilmer Mclean / J. Edgar Hoover Ely Parker / Chef
Mary Todd Lincoln / Lady Bird Johnson Julia Grant / Viola Liuzzo
Elizabeth Keckley / Coretta Scott King Old Woman / Viola Jackson
Certain other roles (e.g. Mary Custis Lee) were not doubled; and all other parts were played by members of the company
| ACT ONE 1865 | |
| ONE | 4th March: Capitol, Washington, DC |
| TWO | 4th March: ante-room to the East Room in the White House |
| THREE | Three weeks later: aboard The River Queen, City Point, Virginia |
| FOUR | Two days later: The Mess, Richmond, Virginia |
| FIVE | 1st April: Dabneys Sawmill, Petersburg, Virginia |
| SIX | 3rd April: House of Representatives, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia |
| SEVEN | 3rd April: The Mess |
| EIGHT | 4th April: Rocketts Landing, Richmond, Virginia |
| NINE | 7th9th April: various locations in and around Farmville, Virginia |
| TEN | 9th April: Wilmer McLeans house, Appomattox Court House, Virginia |
| ELEVEN | 9th April: Elizabeth Keckleys cabin on The River Queen |
| TWELVE | 9th April: Wilmer McLeans house |
| THIRTEEN | 9th April: The River Queen, approaching Washington, DC |
| FOURTEEN | 9th April: Wilmer McLeans house |
| ACT TWO 1962 | |
| ONE | 11th June: Lee Harvey Oswalds apartment, New Orleans |
| 1965 | |
| TWO | 18th February: Macks Caf, Marion, Alabama |
| THREE | 3rd March: Zions Chapel Methodist, Marion, Alabama |
| FOUR | 4th March: the Oval Office in the White House |
| FIVE | 5th March: the Oval Office |
| SIX | 7th March: the Oval Office |
| SEVEN | 11th March: the Oval Office |
| EIGHT | 13th March: the Oval Office |
| NINE | 15th March: the Speakers chambers, Washington, DC, and Sullivan Jacksons house in Selma, Alabama |
| TEN | A few days later: the Oval Office |
| ELEVEN | 25th March: outside the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama |
| TWELVE | 26th March: the Oval Office |
| 2010 | |
| THIRTEEN | December: a state prison in Alabama |
1865
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