Josephy Center Presents: Multitudes - A One Man Play

Multitudes is an original one man play about the great gay father of American poetry, Walt Whitman. And will be performed at the Josephy Center on Friday, November 8th at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students and free for youth under 12. The play was authored by Valerie and Kim Nuzzo of Zephyr Stage, Fruita, Colorado; it runs a little over an hour with no intermission and addresses Whitman’s thoughts on the democratic ideals of inclusion and the importance of every voice, slavery, women’s rights, his fondness for Abraham Lincoln, his sorrow, turmoil and PTSD around his service as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. All issues being faced in our own time in one form or another. The nation is celebrating the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth.

The play has been performed in a variety of venues throughout the southwestern United States: at traditional theaters, universities, libraries, bookstores and book festivals, in Scotland at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh and most recently the play was performed on invitation at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Historic Site on Long Island, New York as part of the bicentennial celebration of his birth.