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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...
...play, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. is about Harvard's own Henry David Thoreau (played by Greg Landiss, a second year Harvard law student) and his decision to rejoin society. Thoreau has been arrested for with olding tax payments which would finance weapons used in the Mexican War. The night in jail is a turning point for Thoreau who, at age 29, is about to exchange his life of withdrawal for a life of social activism...
...play would be a smash hit if the war in Vietnam was still being fought and if Harvard students were still agonizing over decisions about whether to fight or flee to Canada as conscientious objectors. For Thoreau is jailed because he objects to a white supremacist war being carried out by a fanatic president hell-bent on conquering an innocent people for its own glorification-a war Ulysses S. Grnt called the most wicked in history, a war with striking similarities to Vietnam...
...even though the draft no longer threatens increasingly self-satisfied Harvard students, the messages Thoreau offers on the harms of unchecked technological progress and his philosophy on attaining "consciousness" make for insightful entertainment...
...Night Thoreau Spent in Jail at Kirkland House...