Award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin will visit Transylvania University for a four-day workshop of his new play, culminating in this public staged reading presented in partnership with BCTC Theater.
The story is set in a remote desert in the 1850s, as four men – a U.S. Army lieutenant, a sharpshooter, a botanist, and an artist – set out to survey a route for the new continent-spanning railroad.this powerful journey into the genesis of the Transcontinental Railroad, exploring the often untold perspectives on an iconic chapter in American history, including the events that shaped the country’s moral and environmental future. In a remote desert in the 1850s, four men — a U.S. Army lieutenant, sharpshooter, botanist and artist — set out to survey a route for the new continent-spanning railroad. After being scattered on separate odysseys, they cross paths with lost pioneers, cautious Native Americans and an African American Mormon couple unsure whether to befriend, fight or flee the newcomers. Whose dreams will prevail?
A talkback with Goodwin will follow the show.
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