WRITING SUSAN B. ANTHONY IN A CARDI B. WORLD

MICHELLE TYRENE JOHNSON

Not talking period pieces

The interplay between the past and the …?

MY PLAYS INVOLVING A TWIST ON HISTORY

• The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip
• Her Name
• The Green Duck Lounge
• Say It, Flo!
• Only One Day A Year

FAMOUS PLAYS INVOLVING HISTORY MASHUP

• Hamilton
• The Revolutionists
• Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
• The Crucible

MOTIVATION

A commission

Finding great source material

A story that can best be told in the past

Interest in a time period

What device do you use?

DEVICES

• Fantasy
• Time travel
• Realism
• Memory play
• Some other idea

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The moving target of research

HOW TO FIND INFO

• The internet
• Libraries
• Podcasts
• Periodicals online
• Voice-controlled virtual assistant
• Music

Factual vs. emotional accuracy

Hamilton By Lin Manuel-Miranda

The Revolutionists
By Lauren Gunderson

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn

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• Not writing a history essay with dialogue
• Skip the PSA
• Being unintentionally anachronistic
• Artistic education or educational art?

ANY QUESTIONS?