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Surprisingly, in view of the apparent motivations of the author, the piece is in no sense a dramatisation of Paine’s career. Tom is represented on the stage (inordinately unappetisingly, as it happens), but Foster merely uses the man’s words and ideas as a springboard into dark pools of surrealist fantasy.
Tom Paine – The La Mama Production of Paul Foster’s Play Read Post »
IN the midst of the controversy over Silas Deane’s negotiations with the French government, the most sensational political scandal of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine brought forth several satirical pieces in verse and prose under a new pseudonym, Comus.
To hear “God save great Thomas Paine” sung on an English stage is surely a rare experience. This was the privilege of the audiences at Sheffield Playhouse recently, during the presentation of “The Stirrings in Sheffield on Saturday Night”, a sort of documentary with music written by Alan Cullen.
New group has premiere at Macdougal Street Playhouse, Thomas Paine, a play in two acts and nine scenes from the German Hanns Johst.
The bronze tablet was erected Saturday by the Greenwich Village Historical society on the site formerly occupied by the house where Thomas Paine died.
Representatives of foreign governments and historical and patriotic societies attended the unveiling of a bronze tablet today to the memory of Thomas Paine at a house in Greenwich Village.
Unveiling Tablet To Thomas Paine In Greenwich Village Read Post »
The Greenwich Village Historical Society is raising a fund to place a memorial tablet on the house at 59 Grove Street, occupying the site of the earlier dwelling in which Thomas Paine died in 1809.
Greenwich Village Historical Society Is Raising Fund for Tablet Read Post »
The principal feature of the exercises was the presentation to the Huguenot Association of New Rochelle of a portrait of Gen. Benjamin Bonneville.
Portrait Of Paine’s Adopted Son Placed Among Relics Read Post »
Representatives of foreign governments and historical and patriotic societies attended the unveiling of a bronze tablet to the memory of Paine at the house in Greenwich Village where he once lived.
The marble bust of Thomas Paine by Sydney Morse, now in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, was first presented to the city council Nov. 20 1876.
Marble Bust Of Paine Granted a Place in Independence Hall Read Post »
With patriotic ceremonies, the famous monument on North avenue, erected to the memory of Thomas Paine, the author-hero of the American Revolution, was re-dedicated.
The bust of Thomas Paine, presented to Memorial Hall and not accepted, has finally found a resting place in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
After Thirty Years of Obscurity Paine’s Bust Accepted Read Post »
