The Summer Before Forever

YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND OUR STRUGLLE FOR INDEPENDENCE THE SAME WAY AGAIN

In a world ruled by despotic monarchs, our Founding Fathers had a vision for a new nation founded on freedom and equality. For their vision to become a reality they had to declare independence from England and defeat the most powerful nation on earth. With nothing to gain but freedom for the thirteen colonies, fifty-six men risked their lives, fortunes and sacred honor by signing their names to the Declaration of Independence, their death warrant should the war be lost.

Through the words and actions of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson this is the exciting story of how that improbable dream was achieved. It begins with George Washington’s appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Armies and ends shortly after Franklin returns home from France.

Jack Osborne, the audience’s surrogate, makes you privy to their embarrassments, disappointments, intrigues, women, defeats, triumphs, and Jefferson’s response to Islamic extremism. You will see Franklin and Jefferson and their compatriots as men with the same fears, shortcomings, weaknesses, and vices that we face today, and you will leave the theater with a proud appreciation of who they were and what they achieved.

Franklin & Jefferson – Sex, Politics and The American Revolution. You will never look at our Founding Fathers and our struggle for Independence the same way again!

Benjamin Franklin

Patriot, inventor, capitalist, diplomat, scientist, womanizer

Thomas Jefferson

Patriot, architect, statesman, wine connoisseur, chauvinist.

Abigail Adams

Patriot, First Lady, feminist, abolitionist, revolutionary

Jack Osborne

Historian and traveler from the 21st century who visits Franklin and Jefferson in Philadelphia (Act I), and in Paris (Act II)