Boston Tea Party,

by Isabel Jennings and Mialee Montes

Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party

https://hamilton.gilderlehrman.org/key-document/stamp-act-1765

https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/997
For every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, Someone onstage reading a document
or Sheet or Piece of Paper on which shall be ingrossed,
written, or printed: Is now go-
Wait, what’s that?
A Tea Act? Confusion as more people join him on stage

First the stamp act is gone, but now this?

They repeal and add as they see fit- Talking and going back and forth, can be split
No one understands what the British are getting at, as seen fit
We want to do something.

Paper, Tea, other dire necessities,

taxed at the hands of the british
For their eternal conquest. They feign praying to some god
whatever form you take we plead for you to send someone-
Adams, Adams, Hancock-

A biles rising up in our throats, and I know

The three pace around to stage, thinking and
That we all know what it is we are screaming for raving
Retribution, for crimes that the king has committed.
We want to do something.

Quietly, slowly, gather up intel One of the men leaves to get the intel
Our money goes to the wars we are not fighting for
One man leaves to rally troops
Quietly, Slowly, get the merchants and tradesmen
Taxation without representation is the enemy
Intel man comes back - and the main man
December 16th, sounds good talks- carrying a tomahawk
We need disguises
“Do you think these will do?”
Natives?yeah... yeah- I like it.
The two men act out an infiltration, as the third
Teens, Men, slinking in the night follows, narrating
Boarding ships, whose names are ones we recognise
Dartmouth, Eleanor, Beaver; B-E-I-C Ships
Carrying Chinese supplements that cost more that what it did
Yesterday, God we felt older than we do now
Our chests bare with head dresses, careful,
don’t give us away now

342 chests gleam in the stores, the men on the docks giddy The two men stand on the sides of the narrator
Fingers itching to do something here, it’d be easy to steal, as introduced, looking out into the audience,
speaking in unison
Hawkes and Hewes spoke up, a Shoemaker and a writer,