A New Play by PETER SHAM

The Franklin Event is a play that blends historical fascination with emotional longing. The evening is framed as a compelling spectacle: legendary American founding father, Benjamin Franklin, by some unexplained electrical phenomenon, materializes regularly as if “on cue” before a live audience. The anomaly has been hosted and moderated for many years by Grace Fournet, a historian and author who first discovered what is now called "The Franklin Event." The audience participates via pre-written questions on index cards, asking about everything from kite experiments to political philosophy. However, as the play progresses, the boundaries between the public and the private, the spectacle and the real, fall away revealing a relationship haunted by time and inevitability. The great Ben Franklin, who sees Grace for the "first" time every night, never remembers her from previous evenings. Grace, who has watched him appear and vanish every night for some twenty years, has gotten to know him on a deeper level, and, through this repetition and loss, has grown to love him perhaps at the cost of losing her own identity.
Cast Size: 1W/1M.

Congratulations to The Franklin Event for being one of 6 new plays selected for the Center for the Arts at Kayenta’s New Play Lab!

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