Scott’s play is steeped in history and historiography. The native of Wilmington, Delaware, studied history at Washington College in Maryland and briefly interned at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, doing research on artifacts for exhibition.
“This thing would happen where I would learn something new and then have to completely recontextualize the exhibit,” Scott said. “So when I was writing this play, I was, like, ‘How can I have audiences experience what it is like to learn history?’ We actually don’t get all the pieces. How we learn it, in what order, colors how we perceive everything.”