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by Eric
Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) Director
Charlotte Westenra It is 1787 and the frail government of the recently independent United States of America, menaced by the powers of old Europe and reeling from internal rebellion, is suffering a crisis of identity. What sort of country should America be? Who should govern it? Who belongs in it? Throughout a long, humid, Philadelphia summer, a group of able and passionate men force themselves into one room to argue out the guiding principles of the new nation. What they came up with proves to be one of the most important – and radical – democratic experiments of the last 250 years. We The People forges a vivid drama out of the surviving speeches, letters and official documents from that historic moment. Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, George Washington and many of the other founding fathers, came together at a moment of crisis and created the constitution which the United States still lives within today. We The People, is a recreation of what they did. Eric Schlosser is one of America's most exciting historians whose books have been international bestsellers – they include Reefer Madness and Fast Food Nation. Charlotte Westenra directed Gladiator Games (Sheffield and Stratford East) and is now directing Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Donmar Warehouse). Paul Wills recent work includes The Cut (Donmar).
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