CF McGlashan

A Piece of History

A Piece of History

The more we researched, the more we became passionate about telling the story of the Donner Party. Because it wasn’t about some distant historical event in our nation’s past. It was about the very real people who lived through it. We became inspired by them and by their courage. Even as we focused the story of our script and eliminated individual incidents and rearranged historical fact to suit the structure of a two-act musical, we were determined to