Editorial Reviews

At last! A powerful, true play about the great Indian sports hero for young audiences -- and all ages, by one of America's great playwrights, Emmy-award winning Saul Levitt. Single unit set. Cast of 7 men.

Indian and early 20th century American dress.Here is an exciting dramatization of the memorable life of Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Indian, football, baseball, track star, winner of 2 gold medals in the 1912 Olympics, cited by King Gustave of Sweden as "the greatest athlete in the world." His life was a drama -- a sudden rise to world-wide fame, a tragic fall when through an innocent incident his medals were forfeited and his honors stripped away. Staged with vivid scenes of athletic triumph and tribal pageantry, this visually stunning musical play is told as a vision of the late Chief Blackhawk, the old warrior of the Sac and Fox tribe, ancestor of Thorpe. This remarkable work was commissioned by the Alliance for Arts Education of the John F. Kennedy Center, where it was premiered in the Eisenhower Theatre. It was nationally toured to universal acclaim by the Performing Arts Repertory Theatre, playing to hundreds of thousands of young people.