Becoming Benjamin Lay explores three main questions. First, who was Benjamin Lay and why is he so largely unknown? Second, how did actor Mark Povinelli come to inhabit and represent the complex life, ideas, and activism of a man who lived almost three hundred years ago? How did he “become” Benjamin Lay? Third, how does the life of Lay illuminate the issues faced by Little People today and what can he tell us about living with courage and conviction in dark times?
The film asks the viewer, what kind of resistance is within you and how can you use it to take action?
