Freedom Sisters: Stamping, Shouting & Singing Home, by Lisa Evans, is now performing through March 4 at the Coterie Theatre, Level 1 Crown Center Shops. The play recounts the story of one family's fight for freedom and progress as told by twelve-year-old Lizzie Walker.
It is 1950s America, the Deep South; a world on the verge of change but still tainted by everyday injustices and the remnants of slavery. "In my family there's dead people hopping in and out of the conversation all the time." One of those dead people is Lizzie's great-great-great grandmother Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter of slavery, whose voice could not be silenced. As Lizzie unpacks the past, she listens to Sojourner and, in the process, discovers her own voice...fearless, joyful, full of resolve.
"It's about a girl learning form her family's history and through the process finds her own voice," said Megh
Ann Henry, co-director of
Freedom Sisters: Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home. "It's a mixture of history, family, civil rights and women's rights. It's also about standing up for yourself."
Freedom Sisters is funded in part by the Missouri
Arts Council (MAC) and the ArtsKC Fund. Prior to performing at the Coterie, this production toured to 15 schools and libraries in the metropolitan area, reaching approximately 6,000 students and educators.
The cast includes: Teisha Bankston, Sherri Roulette-Mosley, Karen Cline Wright and Dianna Yvette.
The artistic and
Production Company includes
DamRon Armstrong (co-director), Megh
Ann Henry (co-director), Brad Shaw (costume and set design), Matthew Mitra (light designer), Richard Sprecker (sound designer),
Ron MeGee (properties designer),Scott Hobart(technical director), Fiona Carmody(production stage manager) and Brian Adkins (assistant stage manager and sound engineer).
The
Coterie Theatre, now in its 33nd Season and named "One of the Five Best Theaters for Young Audiences in the U.S." by TIME magazine, is located on level one of Crown Center Shops. Freedom Sisters: Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home performs now through – March 4, Tuesdays through Sundays.
Individual Tickets are $15 for adults; $10 for all children, students and seniors age 60 and up; $9 for Season Ticket holders. Discounts are available for groups of 20 or more. Tickets may be purchased online at
www.coterietheatre.org or by calling the Coterie Box Office
(816) 474-6552 from 10 a.m. to 4 p. m. Monday through Friday.TARGET Saturdays: Free ticketwith purchase; restrictions apply; not available online.
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