THEATRE REVIEW: penfoldtheatre offers an audacious retelling of an equally audacious life.
Amy McAndrew as Lady Bloomfield, Nathan Jerkins as Lord Bloomfield, and Jeremy Rashad Brown as Henry “Box” Brown in Penfold Theatre’sOver its past 14 seasons, Penfold Theatre has been on a mission to give audiences “fresh eyes to see old stories.
Henry was a Virginia slave who in 1849 achieved his freedom by encasing himself in a wooden box used to ship tobacco, then mailing it to an operator in the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia. He became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast before moving to England to avoid the threat of re-enslavement upon the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
The moment of Nancy’s arrival is underdeveloped in the script, but the likelihood of her being a figment of Henry’s imagination and desire rather than real is reinforced by the lack of changes in costuming and scenery throughout the show, despite the passage of time and frequent relocation of place. And yet, all this is contradicted by having Nancy become a dominant rather than phantom presence in this play, which quickly shifts’s focus from Henry’s heroics to hers.
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