Get Thorpe

A play about the founding of the U.S.’s largest and most (in)famous Indian boarding school and the amazing story of a football game the school played against the US Army at West Point in 1912. This was Native American kids and US Army players facing off barely 20 years removed from Wounded Knee where many of the players’ fathers and grandfathers actually fought and killed one another on the battlefield. The lead player for Carlisle was Jim Thorpe, the most famous athlete of his era. On the Army side, the lead player was Dwight Eisenhower. Coaching the Carlisle Indians was legendary coach, Pop Warner. A play about the true meaning of this historic game and about who gets to tell the story.

Cast size: 2 (with doubling).  

Development:  Playwrights Week - Lark Play Development Center.

https://newplayexchange.org/plays/4603/get-thorpe