{"id":8814,"date":"2019-07-17T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T08:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2025-02-20T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:15:26","slug":"fire-in-the-bones-%e2%80%a2-a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=8814","title":{"rendered":"Fire In The Bones \u2022 A Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

a tragedy by Thomas F. Rogers<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

(For production by Professional Groups, College\/University Groups, Community Groups, LDS Church Groups)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This first ever literary treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre brings to light the complex and tragic circumstances that underlie the catastrophe that in 1857 cast a shadow on the Latter-day Saints. \u00a0Even today some church members fear to know the particulars, while agenda driven detractors only add to the general suspicion. Faithful to Juanita Brooks’ thorough and accurate scholarship, FIRE IN THE BONES completely exonerates Brigham Young as the massacre’s instigator, while still suggesting the tragic dilemma into which well-meaning persons, like John D. Lee, are sometimes thrust and the sacrifices that a community, right or wrong, may require of them.The play is a study in tainted conscience and mob psychology, of people\u2019s paranoia in the wake of an anticipated extermination, as during the Utah War. In their temperament and their fate, its characters resemble the zealots of every society and every age. Such people–ancient or modern–make tragedy as timely as ever. With grateful acknowledgement to Juanita Brooks, whose valiant life’s work called the subject of John D. Lee to our attention and provided the impeccable research that underlies almost every line of the script.<\/p>\n

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