{"id":11866,"date":"2020-09-24T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:26:48","slug":"rain-in-the-face-a-battle-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=11866","title":{"rendered":"Rain-In-The-Face \u2022 A Battle for Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Eric Samuelsen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, many things were created, re-created and introduced to a willing public hungry for the sensational, the common-place, the truth as it is written, but may not have been lived. In the re-assembled cabin of Sitting Bull, after great expense is taken to move it, Rain-It-The-Face sits to greet the public. Some hate him. Many love him. But they all feared him, the ferocious warrior who killed the Custer brothers \u2014 at least that is how it was told in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s epic poem about the Battle of The Little Big Horn, which Longfellow did not, in fact, witness, while everyone took the poem as gospel-truth. Buffalo Bill Cody hopes to gain Rain-In-The-Face as a member of his performing troupe. Annie Oakley visits in order for Rain-In-The-Face to tell his stories\u2013\u2013it is his price\u2013\u2013as he knows of Annie’s and Sitting Bull\u2019s friendship. The widow of General Custer also visits, to learn the truth about the events that took her husband\u2019s life. But what is truth? Is it White truth, or Native truth? Is it man\u2019s truth, or woman\u2019s truth? This play explores it all and allows the audience to accept what truth they will.<\/p>\n

Some mature language.<\/p>\n

PREMIERE PLAY FILE<\/p>\n

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