Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) Theatre will wrap up its 2014-2015 season with August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." Select performances will be held during Sensoria, the college's weeklong celebration of the arts.
Set in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" features owners Seth and
Bertha Holly, who play host to a makeshift family of people who come to stay during the Great Migration of the 1910s - a time when descendants of former slaves moved in large numbers from the South toward the industrial cities of the North, seeking new jobs, new lives and new beginnings.
Among those on the move are Herald Loomis and his young daughter, Zonia. Haunted by the past, they are headed wherever the road takes them in search of the long gone Martha, Herald's wife and Zonia's mother. Herald arrives at the boarding house unsettled, dark and secretive, and meets the home's many boarders who include proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo and a young homeboy up from the South. Audiences will delight in seeing how these different characters come together to help set Herald on the way to recovering his lost spirit and finding a new life.
Take this opportunity to support local theatre; reserve your seat today!
WHEN: April 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m.
April 12 and 19 at 2:30 p.m.
April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Pease Auditorium, CPCC Central Campus, Pease Lane, Charlotte, NC
Individual tickets are $18 and a $10 ticket is available for children under 15 with the purchase of an adult ticket. A student ticket is also available for $5. Tickets may be purchased online at
tix.cpcc.edu, at the CPCC Box Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday or by calling
704.330.6534. Free parking is available in the Theater parking deck, accessible from 4th St. Connect to CPCC Arts on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/cpccarts.
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