AIN'T FAR FROM HOME Plays This Weekend at Musical Theatre Factory

There are four chances to see Musical Theatre Factory's Ain't Far From Home at Playwrights Rehearsal Studios (440 Lafayette St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003): Thu, Apr 27 @ 7pm (Rm 3A); Fri, Apr 28 @ 3pm (Rm 3D); and Sat, Apr 29 @ 3pm & 7pm (Rm 3A).

Starring Cicily Daniels Macias and Mimi Bessette, Ain't Far From Home features book & lyrics by Sukari Jones, music by Ben Krauss, and is directed by Kimberly Loren Eaton, with music direction by Cynthia Meng.

A slave drives the elderly lady of the big house in a horse-drawn buggy, deciding whether or not she will return the mistress to her home where a bloody slave uprising is planned for the evening.

A black teenage cook weighs leaving behind the white actress who has been like a sister to her on their showboat against running off to Vaudeville to try for her dreams.

A pair of 9-year-old girls meet meet on a bus in the Jim Crow South, and discover that they are both running away from the same town and event for different reasons.

A 3-person, 100 minute original musical triptych, AIN'T FAR FROM HOME is a journey between a black woman and a white woman, reincarnated over time as they try to connect in female solidarity while being separated by race. AIN'T FAR FROM HOME invokes a dialogue on "feminism" as it intersects with race, nodding to our American past and asking us as a nation, "Where are we headed?"

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