What Was Done
Spotlighters Theatre 817 St Paul Street, BaltimoreWhat Was Done - a new work by local Baltimore playwright, John L. B. Gohn, directed by Barry Feinstein. In collaboration with Baltimore Playwrights Festival It’s 1978, in rural Maryland. Deirdre, a White historian working on grant money to complete a dissertation on lynchings in the state, is killing two birds with one stone, visiting farmland where the last Maryland lynching happened (in 1933) and stopping by her Uncle Selby’s home. An anomaly in the tax records of the farmland sets her on the trail of what really happened in the lynching, a story that reaches back to the 1840s […]