HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

The new play “Revolution’s Edge” will debut at Old North Church in June 2023. It tells the story of three Bostonians and their families on the eve of the Revolution. Mather Byles is the Loyalist rector of Old North Church, Cato is an African American man who’s enslaved by Byles, and John Pulling is a whiggish ship’s captain and member of the Old North vestry. The three men have very different stations in life, but they all have young families with intertwined lives, and on April 18, 1775, they all had very different decisions to make about those lives. My guests this week are Patrick Gabridge, producing artistic director of the Plays in Place theater company, and Nikki Stewart, executive director of Old North Illuminated. Together, they’ll tell us how this, um, revolutionary new drama came to be.

Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/276/

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• Get tickets to see “Revolution’s Edge” from Old North Illuminated
• Learn more about Plays in Place, including past performances in Boston
• Listen to our past interview with Mark Peterson, author of The City State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
• Listen to our past interview with JL Bell, author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War