[OPLINLIST] Alabama Story in Cleveland

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ENSEMBLE THEATRE opens its 39th consecutive Season!
-THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT-

with

ALABAMA STORY
By Kenneth Jones
Directed by Tyler Whidden

Ohio Premiere!!
September 7th- September 30th
MainStage Theater

A gentle children's book with an apparent hidden message - a black rabbit marries a white rabbit! - stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and the no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama, just as the civil rights movement is flowering. Another story of childhood friends - an African-American man and a white woman, reunited in adulthood in Montgomery that same year - provides private counterpoint to the public events of the play.

Alabama Story was the finalist for several major playwriting awards including the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. With over a dozen professional productions across the country, Ensemble is proud to bring this wonderfully important play to the stage for its Ohio Premiere!

"I wrote Alabama Story several years before our current political moment, but the characters, ideas and themes that surface in the play seem more alive than ever: it's a story of censorship, saber-rattling politicians, persecuted women, Southerners dismissing national opinions, naked racism, threatened civil rights, attacks on the free flow of information. It's also a love story, a political thriller and, at times, a comedy. Really. The play is set in 1959, and it's both heartening and horrifying to me that everything old is new again. Inspired by true events, I ended up writing a play about how we treat each other in times of social crisis. I'm excited that Alabama Story is getting its Ohio Premiere by Ensemble Theatre in a time when conversations about the quality of American character are so highly charged." -Kenneth Jones

"Dynamic! Rich! Impressive! Cleverly crafted! Articulate! Razor-sharp!" -Salt Lake Tribune

"A real-life controversy about a children's book from 1959 is the basis for a new play with freshly relevant themes." -American Theatre

Our entire 2018|2019 Season will take place in the heart of Coventry Village on the Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus!!!
2843 W. Washington Blvd | Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

So JOIN US! What stories we have to tell!

We are also excited to partner with the Heights Libraries<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fheightslibrary.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbcain%40library.ohio.gov%7C985c2104b57f49e906e208d614145bc9%7C50f8fcc494d84f0784eb36ed57c7c8a2%7C0%7C0%7C636718475298777806&sdata=SKOyvTeH2Ewq%2B%2FeCc0GWsu9M3AhukIsMF9LOQa1H4dU%3D&reserved=0> for additional programming! Stay tuned for a schedule of surrounding activities and talkbacks!!
There will be a talkback with Heights Libraries Director, Nancy Levin on following the September 22nd performance!
There will be a SKYPE TALKBACK with the Playwright Kenneth Jones following the September 23rd Performance!

PERFORMANCES:
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm. Sundays @ 2pm
216-321-2930
tickets at ensemble-theatre.org<mailto:tickets at ensemble-theatre.org>

With an amazing cast and crew of LOCAL artists!
Ensemble Members:
Anne McEvoy as Emily Reed.
Joseph Milan as Senator Higgins
Craig Joseph as Garth Williams

And introducing new members to the Ensemble Family:
Cody Kilpatrick Steele as Thomas Franklin
Eugene Sumlin as Josh Moore
Adrienne Jones as Lily Whitfield.

Executive Artistic Director/Producer: Celeste Cosentino
Associate Artistic Director/Director: Tyler Whidden
General Manager/Production Stage Manager: Becca Moseley
Light and Sound Design by Ian Hinz
Set Design by Walter Boswell
Technical Director August Scarpelli
Costume Design by Meg Parish

PARKING
Parking can be found in the Coventry School parking lot to the south of the theatre, also along Washington Blvd and surrounding streets.

Ohio library staff are eligible for a $5 discount using the discount code OHLIB.

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