The Indiana Legislature earlier approved $1.6 million for the new play and to upgrade the 22-year-old, 1,500-seat covered Lincoln Amphitheatre at Lincoln State in Spencer County.
Our board has a lot of work to do between now and June 2009, said Will Koch, who heads the drama association.
Lincoln's character was forged right here in Southern Indiana, he said. We want the new play to leave the audience with the understanding that the boy who lived here from ages 7 to 21 became such a remarkable president in large part due to what he experienced and learned here.
The group's Web site (www.LincolnAmphitheatre.com) provides a vision of what it hopes to see incorporated into an inspirational production. That includes using modern electronic media, such as projection screens, projection on water curtains and fog curtains, and even pyrotechnics to more powerfully tell the story.
The play would center on Lincoln and his presidential years, with flashbacks to his Indiana youth and how it forged his character.
We expect historical accuracy, but understand appropriate use of artistic license, says the Web site
Source link: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/nov/28/hunt-begins-for-playwrightto-pen-new-lincoln/
City Briefs
Wednesday, November 28th 2007, 4:00 AM
Brooklyn cook found dead
Neighbors feared the worst when a man who sold home-cooked meals out of his apartment stopped answering the door.
The 58-year-old was found dead Tuesday in his Bedford-Stuyvesant flat, cops said.
'No one had seen or heard from him for days. You just had a bad feeling, like something bad had happened,' said David Lewis, 42, a neighbor on Decatur St. 'His curtains were closed and he was nowhere to be seen.'
Cops responding to a 911 call found the cook dead with a head wound in his second-floor apartment about 4:15 p.m., cops said. His name was not immediately released.
No weapons were recovered and there were no signs of forced entry, police sources said
Source link: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/28/2007-11-28_city_briefs.html
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