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Play Based on John Brown Trial Opens Tomorrow
Descendants of the original jurors and participants join the cast in The Anvil a two act play about John Brown’s trial in Charles Town. Keith Avis Brockman plays Capt. John Avis with 33 onstage and a New York director, Miss Jules Davis, shaping the production using trial transcripts and Mason Report sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Charles Town
Bobbie Conrad
Keith Avis Brockman
John Avis
Town
Julis Davis
Princeton
N.J
Thomas Green
Brown
Charles R. Wood
New York City
Miss Davis
John W. Davis
Jefferson County
Thornton Perry
Commonwealth of Virginia
Roger Perry
John Perry