Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend a pleasant evening watching a provocative play about a complex man-a play which tosses out all sorts of philosophical tidbits on subjects like civil disobedience, the Universal One, deism and back-to-naturism-then it may not be a bad idea to go see The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail playing at Kirkland House this weekend...
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When Henry D. Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax one year in protest of the Mexican-American War, he was thrown in jail for the night. Built around the hard fact of the great woodsman's musings to the vagrant who shares his cell, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail expands into a full picture of the man more accurate, perhaps, than the picture he gives of himself in Walden. Though the other characters in Thoreau's life, included in flashbacks, help integrate the pieces of his philosophy into the play, the strength of the Kirkland House production should...