In this episode of Theatre is Dead, Cara and Charlie get personal with revolutionary playwright and propaganda kween Mary Otis Warren and discuss how theatre might have won the American Revolution.

Sources:

• THE FIRST AMERICAN THEATRE
• On this day 1778 Joseph Addison’s play Cato: A Tragedy was performed to the American Continental army encamped in Valley Forge
•  Unhappy "Unhappy Differences:" The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia
• British Soldiers' Theatre During the Revolutionary War
• CONGRESS BANS THEATRE!
• Mercy Otis Warren American writer and historian
• Revolutionary War BIOGRAPHY Mercy Otis Warren
• National Women's Hall of Fame: Mercy Otis Warren
• Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)
• National Women's History Museum: Mercy Otis Warren
• Lego stop animation: Mercy Otis Warren