Voices of Liberty in Tribute to the American Revolution

De: Robert Keiper

Narrado por: Robert Keiper

Voices of Liberty is a play for a single actor that was performed at Lincoln Center and Faneuil Hall in Boston and in tours across the country. A narrator introduces people from both sides of the American Revolution, and we learn what Liberty meant to them. Before the first shots were fired, Patrick Henry passionately defends the colonists' right to stand against British tyranny. Then we share the first battle of the war with a British soldier as he yearns for something more valuable in his life.

There’s a high-born British officer who thinks little of the colonists until he encounters them in conflict. We meet a colonial farmer volunteer who gives a detailed account of what happened at Bunker Hill and tells how that day taught him the meaning of freedom. General Washington’s aide describes the day he recruited a spy, and finally we discover how Nathan Hale’s last words became a beacon of hope to all in the colonies.

©2021 Robert Keiper (P)2021 Robert Keiper

This book is a vivid time machine!

Everyone knows it's hard to bring history alive with just facts and figures.  "Voices of Liberty" is a time machine that vividly takes us back to the "why," the "what," and the "who" of early events that launched the American Revolutionary War.  This short play had over 2500 performances around the US to celebrate America's bicentennial, and was enthusiastically received by school children and adults alike.  Carefully researched events are described, and the uncertainty of the revolution's early success is apparent. The author animates the voices of American and British characters embroiled in a conflict that led to the founding of a new nation.