JQA at Arena Stage
Dates: (3/1/2019 - 4/14/2019 )
Arena Stage |
1101 Sixth Street, SW
Washington D.C.,DC 20024
Phone: 703-488-3300
Tickets: $40-90
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Complicated, passionate and difficult, John Quincy Adams was a brilliant diplomat, ineffectual one-term President and congressman known for his eloquence, arrogance and integrity. This unique, highly-theatrical play by award-winning playwright Aaron Posner (Stupid F**king Bird) imagines key confrontations between JQA and some of America’s most dynamic figures: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, his own father, John Adams and more. At once provocative, haunting and hilarious, this Power Play challenges the way we think of our country, our government and ourselves.
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