Posted: 1/24/17 at 10:52pm
I was at rehearsal for a musical earlier (aptly, a production of 1776), and we had a dramaturg come in to talk about the political climate of the era. She asked us to raise our hands if we thought this country was going in the wrong direction, and almost everyone raised their hand. Next, she said to keep our hands up if we would be willing to put our life on the line to change that, and I was one of the only people who kept my hand up. Yesterday, the president shut down the National Park Twitter account after it commented on the inauguration turnout. He is also making cuts to Arts grants, and controlling press conferences to accept lies as "alternative facts". As a playwright, the most important right guaranteed to me as an American citizen is the freedom of speech, and I can see that right being seriously threatened in the coming years.
I would type this: [1798] - notice I used the brackets [ ] instead of the parentheses ( ). 
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