A Hundred Circling Camps
During the summer of 1932, over 20,000 people hopped trains to Washington D.C. and camped out to demand fair pay for veterans of the World War. The legacy of the Bonus Army is written into our laws and culture, but the march has been largely forgotten. As America protests and forgets and protests and forgets, what is carried forward? Touching on the Poor People’s Campaign, Occupy Wall Street and other protest camps, A Hundred Circling Camps explores what it means to live in public as an act of resistance.
2024 Production, Dogteam Theatre Project at Atlantic Stage 2
Director: Rebecca Wear
Co-set Designer and Prop Designer: Courtney Smith
Co-set Designer: Mark Evancho
Lighting Designer: Calvin Anderson
Sound Designer and Composition: Madison Middleton
Costume Designer: Summer Lee Jack
Stage Manager: Joel Andrew Cote
Photos: Clinton Brandhagen
Production/development history:
2024 Production, Dogteam Theatre Project at Atlantic Stage 2, New York, NY
2023 Workshop, Dogteam Theatre Project, Middlebury College, VT
2018 Reading, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL
Commission: 2017-2018 Goodman Playwrights Unit