DANIEL JOHN KELLEY

Growing up there were a few movies I played over and over again: Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Ivanhoe with Robert Taylor, the Harryhausen Jason and the Argonauts and the Harryhausen Clash of the Titans with Lawrence Olivier.

This is why I am so excited for this:

The Accidental Patriot!

“The Accidental Patriot is the third installment of Stolen Chair’s CineTheatre Tetralogy, an original 1930s-style swashbuckler (as Sophocles might have written it if he’d been under contract to Warner Brothers), set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Revolution.  This mash-up of Greek tragedy and Errol Flynn-era pirate films features both rapier duels and rapier wit as it satirizes heroism, patriotism, altruism, and all of the other flimsy –isms that move us to action.”

Basically, it’s everything that I love in one show- you’ve got Greek Tragedy and Errol Flynn. In the theatre. I thought I had everything I wanted in a show with this, but apparently it’s just going to be my year for awesome things I like.