Abigail Adams is the smartest person in the room and the room keeps trying to file her under “John’s wife.” In Broadside, she’s the Needle Guard’s quiet captain: Joseph Warren trusts her, so the others follow her lead. She’s part courier, part charm offensive, part human lie detector for revolutionary hypocrisy. She believes in liberty. She just keeps asking, “Great, does that include me?”
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| Abigail Adams being excluded from strategy discussions |
Her big moment hits upstairs at the Green Dragon: the Needle Guard gets trapped, the patrol’s sniffing around, and Abigail does the most dangerous thing imaginable… she commits to the bit. She escapes by starring in Mercy's impromptu play "THE GOVERNOR’S FANCY!” as one of the “three drunken maidens,” wobbling her way past suspicion while smuggling a coded message like it’s tucked inside a punchline.
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| Abigail Adams having fun as one of "Three Drunken Maidens" |
Then, in Broadside's "play-in-a-play" satire, Governor Hutchinson (played by Paul Revere, an ironic role reversal) has to choose a bride, Abigail drops the “Remember the Ladies” line, history’s earliest mic drop. Hutchinson immediately boots her out of “contention,” because nothing scares authority like a woman saying the quiet part out loud.
