BRATTLEBORO — Jay Craven's newest film, "Lost Nation," will screen its world premiere at Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre for two nights, July 10 and 11, where the show's lead actors will participate in a Q&A. Showtime is 7 p.m.
Tickets are available at the door or in advance at kcppresents.org . "Lost Nation" is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont.
"Lost Nation" stars Irish actor Kevin Ryan ("Copper," Harry Wild") as Vermont founding father and rebel schemer, Ethan Allen, who leads resistance to New Yorker land claims, launches an ill-fated attack on British forces in Montreal, and leads invasions by his Green Mountain Boys into Yorker strongholds of Guilford and Brattleboro. At every turn, Allen navigates thick entanglements with allies, enemies, and family. "Lost Nation's" parallel and intersecting story features Kenyan actress Eva Ndachi ("Beautifully Broken") as Lucy Terry Prince, whose poem, "Bars Fight," about the 1746 Deerfield Massacre, is the first known work of African American literature.
Enslaved in Western Massachusetts at the age of 3 — for 30 years — Terry then settled with her family on a Guilford homestead carved out of the forest by her husband, formerly enslaved frontier transport operator, Abijah Prince. Prince family antagonist, aspiring Guilford politician John Noyes, is played by Rob Campbell ("The Crucible," "Ethan Frome," "The Unforgiven"). British intelligence chief and former Green Mountain Boy co-fo.
