An Evening with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown

Name: An Evening with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown
Start: 2025-03-08T14:00:00-05:00
Location: 513 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States, Florida 32601

Schedule

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

513 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States, Florida 32601 | Gainesville, FL

We are thrilled to partner with the University of Florida Performing Arts Driveway Theatre Project for the showing of "An Evening with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown." The production, starring Shamrock McShane, Pamela D. Marshall, and E. Stanley Richardson, will take place on the front porch of the Matheson House as a part of the Museum’s Second Saturdays at Sweetwater series.
Admission is free and guests are encouraged to bring their own blanket and chairs.
"An Evening with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown" was adapted by director Carol Velasques Richardson from William Branch’s "In Splendid Error." Richardson has put together a searing dramatic history lesson to reveal the complex friendship, struggle, and heroism of two comrades in the fight to free the slaves. The program will include a talk-back to engage the audience in a discussion of issues that simply could not be more pressing – Race and Freedom.
This program is sponsored in part by Visit Gainesville/Alachua County, FL; The City of Gainesville; and by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of the Arts and Culture, and the State of Florida.