Minnesota Fringe Festival 2026: "A Revolution Highly Favorable"

Day: 3Show: 7Title: A Revolution Highly FavorableCategory: Solo Show / Spoken Word / Storytelling / Historical content / Political contentBy: Maximum VerbosityCreated by: phillip andrew bennett lowLocation: Strike TheaterSummary: The story of the American Revolution, with readings from contemporaneous sources, told continuously over the five performances.Highlights: If you love history, this is the show for you. It's a dense retelling of the American Revolution using the words of those who were there, and wrote it down, in letters, published articles, songs, and other sources, including the writings of 18th Century historian David Ramsey. Fringe vet Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, dressed in period costume, goes back and forth between two lecterns, reading historical text at one, connecting original text at the other. I attended the first show which covered the beginnings of the revolution, the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party (see the More Information tab on the show page for…