Ben Franklin "Traitor with the Correct Cause!" Caveat* Theater FULL VIDEO 07 15 2025

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In July, 2025, 1st-Person presenter GregRobin Smith gave two performances of his "Benjamin Franklin Alive" program in NYC. The first performance was at Brooklyn's Old Stone House Museum and gathering space. The 2nd was at Manhattan's Caveat* Theater on July 15, 2025. One of the benefits of using Caveat's space is they can video the performance. This video is the result of their work capturing the performance.

Ben Franklin at Caveat* Theater Video

This is the full performance. These marks are its sections. We are also releasing the video broken up into these 'chapters'. Enjoy it either way.

GregRobin Smith
Managing Director
The Washington Shakespearean Festival
and presenter of "Benjamin Franklin Alive".
© 2025 all rights reserved.

Video 1 - Introduction – Music, Intro to Madame Brillon – and Eleanor Stallcop-Horrox singing.
Introduction by Gilad Paz
Ben enters - The Elbow - China Vase – Roll of Dice – what determines our lives. SELF determination. Learned to read

Video 2 - 15th child – Father’s Dinner Table Conversation – Latin School – Tithe to the Church – “I questioned things more than Accepted things”. Pray over ALL. Silk Dyer to Soap Maker. How it smells. Loved the Sea – Apprenticeships – Blacksmiths in the Family – Printer – Catheters – Touching on The Renaissance and the Enlightenment – Take part in Beauty –

Video # 3 never liked arbitrary use of power – Silence Dogood, the New England Courant. Becoming the Publisher – Harvard - Running Away – NY and then Philadelphia – Meeting young Debra Reed – The hand of Fate – Working with Keimer as a Printer – Travel to London (Fool’s Errands & Poisoned Pigs) Times in London – Return to the Colonies – improving one’s character – Deborah & Ben set up shop, and a life. Bringing in a bastard. Partnership.

Video #4 - The Almanack – “Lazy” always looking for better more efficient ways of doing things. Electricity. The Scientific Method. God’s Punishment or Nature? Lightning Rods & Condemnation – The Kite and Key. Safety Concerns – (43:34 – 44:00) Sparks and Batteries – Reputation Spreads as far as China. Self-determination. The Copley Medal – Let us govern ourselves. – England – Representative – Benjamin Franklin House. 50:20
Mrs Stevenson – Deborah would not come to Europe –

Video # 5 – the Future of the British Empire – Slavery, Jemimah & Peter. King and others. Abolition. John Hancock – Smuggler – Taxes – Hutchinson Affair – Excoriated by Lord Wedderburn. Forging an American – “For this, I shall make your King a small man… for this”.

Video #6 - 70 years a loyal British subject. Blacksmiths to Traitors - Cried for the broken China Vase. Returned to New England. The Constitution.

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