Peggy & the Mad Scenes

a play about the wife of Benedict Arnold

by Libby Schap & Luke Robbins

One morning in 1780, a woman named Peggy Shippen seemed to go stark raving mad. Her husband, Benedict Arnold, had been accused of treason -- and so Peggy came down to breakfast, scantily clad and tormented by hallucinations. That morning came to be known as the Mad Scene.

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Part of the Chelsea Theatre Works' Resident Artist Program

Performed February 21-29, 2020

additional performers: Lauren Chapman & Michael Underhill