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Based upon a collection of true stories.
What does it take to become The President of the United States? What kind of person?
THE FOUR PRESIDENTS examines these questions as it looks at the lives and characters of four of the most colorful personalities to hold the office. Much of the dialogue comes from the Presidents' own words.
THE FARMER WHO WOULD BE KING presents George Washington to the audience through his own words and the words of his biographer Mason Locke Weems. Was the Father of Our Country a simple farmer who answered the call of his countrymen, or was his destiny preordained? Or is the truth located somewhere in the middleground?
THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR is the story of a simple man. Born in the wilds of Kentucky and mostly self taught, Abraham Lincoln would someday be regarded as the greatest American who ever lived. This play presents him as the storyteller he was. Complete with his Gettysburg Address.
THE BULL MOOSE who occupied the White House 100 years ago was truly a man of action. Theodore Roosevelt was a Father, Author, Rancher, Sportsman, Policeman, Rough Rider, Cowboy, Big Game Hunter, Governor of New York and eventually the President of the United States! He believed that power should be used to help the little man, and he practiced what he preached!
MR. NIXON AND THE GHOSTS is based upon a true story. On his first official visit to independence Hall in Philadelphia, Richard Nixon asked to be left alone in the great hall. When he later emerged, Nixon claimed to have been speaking to the ghosts. Nixon was a complicated man who seemed to have greatness within his grasp, only to fall from power, seemingly by his own hand.





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The Gusto Theatre Company
director