Hear English Actor Ian Ruskin in his one man show on Thomas Paine, the Radical Founding Father author of Common Sense, on voting rights and democracy, and more. The eloquence and passion of Thomas Paine are on full view in Ian Ruskin’s vivid portrayal of this fiery patriot and Founding Father. Writer-actor Ruskin captures Paine’s brilliance, contradictions and contrariness in his one-man play about the radical enlightenment figure that helped forge America’s core.
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
- Thomas Paine