Never Hit Soft
by Jessica Frackelton
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid
hitting. But never hit soft"
North and South. Father and Uncle. Faith and fidelity. On a dark and stormy night, an ailing Theodore Roosevelt is visited from the past by the ghosts of his divided house.
Theodore Roosevelt Snr., a strong Lincoln Republican during the Civil War, was an enormous influence on his young and fragile son. As was his Uncle, James Bulloch, the architect of the Confederacy's upstart navy, based in Liverpool.
Born the child of a polarised family in a polarised land, Roosevelt later claimed that it "has been my great fortune to have the right to claim my blood as half Southern and half Northern".
Never Hit Soft imagines the President's attempts to reconcile this angst of opposites.
Funders and Friends
CREATIVE TEAM
Cast
Lindsay Goulbourne
Hayley Greggs
Rachel Hankin
Rose Hardy
Zoe Marras
Rachel Molloy
Amber-Page Moss
Katy Owens
Keri Spellman
Directors
Ursula Carey-Jenkins
Natalie Ann Dowdeswell
Chris Fittock
Designer
Grace Stead
Composer
Christopher Johns
Film Maker
Natalie Humphreys
Historians
Nicola Jones
Dr. Reg Yorke
David Davies
Bob Jones
The Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012 is funded by:
The Heritage Lottery Fund
Arts Council England Grants
for the Arts
And is supported by:
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Sefton MBC Arts & Cultural Services
Friends of Old Christ Church
