SARA FARRINGTON
Playwright // Co-Founder Foxy Films // Voice Actor

On May 18th, 1863 Union troops fell upon the river city of Vicksburg, MS and fought for it until July 4th, a total of 47 days.

To escape the relentless artillery fire, mortar attacks and bombardments, the citizens of Vicksburg, mostly women, children and soon-to-be-former slaves, dug and hid in a series of 500 caves in the hills and bluffs of the city.

Near Vicksburg is about three people hiding in a cave: Jane, a Southern woman, her husband's slave, George, and Jane's teenaged daughter. As the war rages inches away, Jane and George create their own version of society in the claustrophobic cave, with its own set of rules, boundaries, language and physicality.

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Inspired by Mary Ann Loughborough's memoir of The Siege of Vicksburg, MS, My Cave Life in Vicksburg

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