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Philadelphia: The Hand that Holds the Quill
The cast of The Hand That Holds The Quill at the U. S. Constitution Center. Photo courtesy of Cindy Rock Dlugolecki
The cast of The Hand That Holds The Quill at the U. S. Constitution Center. Photo courtesy of Cindy Rock Dlugolecki

In September, our Central Pennsylvania Ambassador Cindy Dlugolecki took her play about the U.S. Constitution to the U.S. Constitution Center for a special performance. I sat down with Cindy to ask how she did it and what inspired her.

Marjorie Bicknell: You adapted The Hand that Holds the Quill from a book. How closely did you stick to the source material and if you departed why did you do so?

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Marjorie Bicknell
Marjorie Bicknell

(1949-2023) received the Joseph Jefferson Award and the John Gassner Memorial Playwrighting Award, won the TNTPops! New Play Contest, and was nominated for the Weissberger Prize. She is published by Dramatic Publishing, Heartland Plays, and ARTemis Arts. She is the founder of Playwrights Alliance of PA, Marathon Acts, and was president emeritus of Philadelphia Dramatists Center.