Tickets are now available for “Middletown and the Revolution: Voices from the Frontier,” a living history program to mark the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War.
The performance, offered by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, will be held at The Open Eye Theater, Margaretville July 11 at 3 and 7 p.m., and July 12 at 2 p.m. Click below to purchase tickets for your preferred show time.
Eight local actors in period costume will describe how their lives were upended by the rupture with Great Britain in 1776. Middletown was part of Ulster County at the time, and the area along the East Branch of the Delaware River was considered the “frontier” between Indian territory to the west and the more heavily populated and strategically important Hudson Valley.
“Voices” will introduce audiences to survivors of battles and prisons, to local Loyalists who sided with Britain, to area settlers kidnapped, murdered and burned out of their homes. There is even a doomed love story in the mix!
Performers include Bill Birns, Burr Hubbell, Michael Fairbairn, Amy Taylor, John Bernhardt, Stephen Hitt, Rebecca Newman and Casey Eminowicz. Narrator is Arnie Schwartz. Directors are Joyce St. George and Frank Canavan.
Crossman Drum photo credit: Museum of the American Revolution 2014.06.0001