Noble’s ‘Franklin’ in Alaska
Happy first performance to playwright alum Samantha Noble and the team behind Franklin at Perseverance Theatre in Anchorage, AK! Franklin was part of BPT’s 2016-2017 season, and runs in Anchorage until Jan. 20.
Congratulations graduates!
Congratulations to our newly-minted MFA Playwrights! From left: Samantha Noble, Andrew Joseph Clarke, Mary Conroy, and Livian Yeh. What a fantastic end to a terrific season of new plays!
‘Franklin’
Review from EDGE Media Network Boston Playwrights’ Theater premieres “Franklin,” an intriguing, often gripping, new play about a lost polar expedition and the researchers — lost souls in their own right — who come looking for answers nearly 170 years later. The play takes the true story of Captain John Franklin’s lost expedition, consisting of […]
Playwright Samantha Noble on ‘Franklin’
Ronan Noone set me a challenge to write him a historical scene set at a moment that changed everything for the people involved, and my mind instantly went to the last hours of the sailors of the Franklin expedition. It’s a moment when a great ambition became a great disaster. But for the men involved, […]