Robert Parsons as Abraham Lincoln. Photo by Matt Petit.
THE RIVALRY
Presented by L.A. Theatre Works as part of the Miami University Performing Arts Series
Feb. 7
Oxford
Radio-theater production. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 tackled the day’s most passionate issue – slavery. Taken directly from the transcripts, THE RIVALRY recreates the face off between Abraham Lincoln, rising Illinois legislator and abolitionist candidate of the newly formed Republican party, and Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic incumbent and champion of states’ rights. The series of seven debates that took place in seven Congressional districts were conducted in a fever of partisanship as the nation listened. Brass bands played, and the press vilified or glorified theopponents, depending on which side they took.
- Tue. Feb. 7 at 7:30pm
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