Butterflies Are Free

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Streaming Media

Playwright

Leonard Gershe

Performance Dates

July 10-14, 1973

Creative Team

Director....................................William E. Vaughn

Designer-Technical Director....Robert Fortner

Costume Coordinator..............Linda M. Vaughan

Synopsis

Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a blind man living in downtown Manhattan whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie. The title was inspired by a passage in Charles Dickens' Bleak House: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflies_Are_Free_(play)

Keywords

College Theater, Otterbein University Theatre, Musical Theatre, Drama

Recommended Citation

Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Butterflies Are Free" (1973). 1973 Summer Theatre. 2.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1973/2