MEN ON BOATS

By Jaclyn Backhaus

Directed by Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson

Access Dramaturgy by Samuel Yates

Friday, Saturday & Monday, Oct. 20, 21 & 23, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 22, 2 p.m.

Harvey M. Powers Theatre – Bucknell University

$7 / $12 general admission

Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. Playwright Jacklyn Backhaus’ delightful adventure examines the conquering men out to chronicle the land in service of America, God, and Manifest destiny. As per the playwright’s request, these historically white male characters are all given voice and movement by actors who are anything and everything but white and male identifying - offering an entertaining and critical lens on the determination, foolishness and humanity of this group of frontiersmen in an historic moment in America’s adolescence