It is the opening night of Our American Queen at the Bridewell Theatre starring Darrell Brockis!
‘Set against the 1864 U.S. presidential election, the play follows Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, as he dares to challenge the president for the nation’s highest office. At the centre stands his daughter, Kate Chase — brilliant, ambitious, and hailed by the press as “Our American Queen.” Torn between love and power, Kate must choose between her devotion to Lincoln’s secretary John Hay and a marriage that could secure her father’s political future in a nation on the brink.
At once intimate and sweeping, Our American Queen explores the price of ambition, the fragility of reputation, and the timeless struggle of women to claim power in a world unwilling to grant it.’
The show is on from tonight until 7th February, find out more and buy your tickets here.