Seven Cousins For A Horse

by Tammy Ryan

Seven Cousins for a Horse tells the story of Ammi Phillips, the most prolific folk artist in American History, returning to his home town of Colebrook, Connecticut in the wake of a personal tragedy. It is 1848, a time of great change. The Seneca Falls Convention is about to call for women’s suffrage, chattel slavery has finally ended in Connecticut, and there is already talk of a war between the states. But Ammi...

Seven Cousins for a Horse tells the story of Ammi Phillips, the most prolific folk artist in American History, returning to his home town of Colebrook, Connecticut in the wake of a personal tragedy. It is 1848, a time of great change. The Seneca Falls Convention is about to call for women’s suffrage, chattel slavery has finally ended in Connecticut, and there is already talk of a war between the states. But Ammi has work to do. He must capture the likenesses of his cousins, the Kinney family. All they can offer in payment is a strong horse, but that may be just the thing he needs to reset his itinerant career — and find his way back home.

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    SEVEN COUSINS FOR A HORSE is a lovely new play that homes in on a small corner of American history to look at big social and political issues involving human rights, feminism, and art. It tells its story very efficiently, presenting a well-known portrait painter of the pre-Civil War era and galloping through the lives of the vibrant and very different women who pose for him. Smart, funny, and touching, the play is never less than thoroughly engaging, and what it comes to in the end is both moving and satisfying.

    SEVEN COUSINS FOR A HORSE is a lovely new play that homes in on a small corner of American history to look at big social and political issues involving human rights, feminism, and art. It tells its story very efficiently, presenting a well-known portrait painter of the pre-Civil War era and galloping through the lives of the vibrant and very different women who pose for him. Smart, funny, and touching, the play is never less than thoroughly engaging, and what it comes to in the end is both moving and satisfying.

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