Our Next Project: The William Penn Story
Act 1 - Five Mile (Ireland)
Act 2 - No Cross, No Crown (Tower of London)
Act 3 - Last Farewell to England (Boat to American)
Act 4 - The Great Framework (Philly)
Act 5 - They That Love Beyond the World (Back in England, health failing, debt, prodigal son, but, in the end, he is happy having realized he found happiness through meaning in the Marc Frankl sense)
Characters include a melange of Admiral Penn, William Penn, wife 1,2, his prodigal son -- but most dialogue / conflict between characters will be drawn from his contemporaries - Charles II, Louis XIV, Cromwell, Voltaire, Locke, Thomas Cook, William Mead, Stuyvesant, William Berkeley, Anne Huchinson and the like...closing theme, the quakers were the humble spark of the great American democratic expirement replicated the world over every century since. Born into riches, died in near rags, but his heart was pure gold and his spirit diamond beight, illuminating both our citys skyline and our contry's horizon.
Like there's the founding fathers
But who laid the fathers' foundation
My good ol friend, Billy Penn
The original American revolutionary
Before we can transform our political body we must first realign our soul and mind - tolerance, meritocracy, personal freedom must be consolidated, accepted, enshrined and revered (paul revered) in the colonial psyche before it can be manifested physically with boxes of tea, continental congegrations and written declarations of American FREEEEEEDOM!!!!
What were the other colonial leaders doing at this time - virginia, georgia, ny, etc -- the explorations occuring at the time - pocohontos was not long before. Spanish in florida (catholics, inquisition, decimation of the seminoles and other native americans) slavery in the british south, french in hudson bay and along the missippi. It seems like only the mid-atlantic/new england area was the sole haven for human decency in the new world. Penn stood center stage of this crumbling New World disorder and said...
Act 2 - No Cross, No Crown (Tower of London)
Act 3 - Last Farewell to England (Boat to American)
Act 4 - The Great Framework (Philly)
Act 5 - They That Love Beyond the World (Back in England, health failing, debt, prodigal son, but, in the end, he is happy having realized he found happiness through meaning in the Marc Frankl sense)
Characters include a melange of Admiral Penn, William Penn, wife 1,2, his prodigal son -- but most dialogue / conflict between characters will be drawn from his contemporaries - Charles II, Louis XIV, Cromwell, Voltaire, Locke, Thomas Cook, William Mead, Stuyvesant, William Berkeley, Anne Huchinson and the like...closing theme, the quakers were the humble spark of the great American democratic expirement replicated the world over every century since. Born into riches, died in near rags, but his heart was pure gold and his spirit diamond beight, illuminating both our citys skyline and our contry's horizon.
Like there's the founding fathers
But who laid the fathers' foundation
My good ol friend, Billy Penn
The original American revolutionary
Before we can transform our political body we must first realign our soul and mind - tolerance, meritocracy, personal freedom must be consolidated, accepted, enshrined and revered (paul revered) in the colonial psyche before it can be manifested physically with boxes of tea, continental congegrations and written declarations of American FREEEEEEDOM!!!!
What were the other colonial leaders doing at this time - virginia, georgia, ny, etc -- the explorations occuring at the time - pocohontos was not long before. Spanish in florida (catholics, inquisition, decimation of the seminoles and other native americans) slavery in the british south, french in hudson bay and along the missippi. It seems like only the mid-atlantic/new england area was the sole haven for human decency in the new world. Penn stood center stage of this crumbling New World disorder and said...
