Revolution
at Princeton: Children and Adult Activities and Performance of Addison’s Cato
– Saturday, September 29, 2012 10 AM – 6:30PM, with Colonial Music at 4PM,
Play at 5PM The Princeton
Battlefield Society is offering a unique weekend of children and adult
activities coupled with a performance of Joseph Addison’s Cato in the
evening, presented by the Princeton Shakespeare Company. Battlefield
Tours (10AM, NOON & 2PM), Children’s Scavenger Hunt (11AM), Clarke House
Volunteers Cooking Demonstration (12NOON), Challenging Horseshoe Games for
Prizes (1PM), Soldiers of the Battle (2PM), and Children’s Enlistment and
Drilling (3PM). Starting at 4PM – across
Mercer Street at the Colonnade (the columns) – Colonial Music by THE
PRACTITIONERS OF MUSICK, 5PM – the play “Cato” by Joseph Addison, George
Washington’s favorite play – was performed for the Continental Army at Valley
Forge, the winter after the Battle of Princeton. The Princeton Shakespeare
Company is a Princeton University student-run theater group. Written in 1712, the play involves love,
conspiracy and tragedy as the forces of Cato await the arrival of Caesar and
his army (running time 90 MIN). Ghost
Tours by the Princeton Tour Company, pending State approval, 8PM and 10PM at
the Clarke House. Handouts on the Battle
available; Books and T-shirts for sale. Suggested donation for the play. Please
see the PBS Website for more information (www.thePrincetonBattlefield
Society.com).
