Too Heavy for Your Pocket at Northern Illinois University

Too Heavy for Your Pocket is the 2016 Yale School of Drama graduate Jiréh Breon Holder’s award-winning work. Tennessee-born Holder takes us back to Nashville in the summer of 1961. The Freedom Riders are embarking on a courageous journey into the Deep South. When 20-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones—and himself—that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own.

Don’t miss this brave new play about the personal costs of public crusades.

Authors

• Jireh Breon Holder