L.A. Theatre Works, The Rivalry

This event is part of Hancher's 2011-2012 season. All tickets are being sold through the Hancher Box Office (see links listed above)

In The Rivalry, Norman Corwin uses dialogue taken from historical transcripts to illustrate the gravity and passion on display in the 1858 Illinois Senate Race debates, in which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's clash of ideology and oratory forever changed our country. Watch as the "consistently superb" (Los Angeles Times) L.A. Theatre Works breathes new life into America's past via the Lincoln-Douglas debates' conflict and compromise. Arguably, The Rivalry also offers a shrewd commentary on the messy partisan politics of the present.