Lincoln & Douglass In A Musical Meeting On COMMON GROUND

Quill Productions presents a staged reading of Granville Wyche Burgess' musical play about the first-time our nation faced a civil war. Based on fact, COMMON GROUND concerns a meeting between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln regarding his responsibility toward a belief in political and social equality for African-Americans.

COMMON GROUND, a musical presentation, also features a disgruntled John Wilkes Booth likening his current political issues and values as "Playing Brutus to His Caesar."

It dramatizes the question that still haunts a nation founded on both slavery AND equality - for all: what is the answer to injustice? Vengeance or Common Ground?

Book & Lyrics: Granville Wyche Burgess. Music & Musical Direction: Stan Wietrzychowski. Stage Direction by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj.