Burning Coal Theatre Stages OAKWOOD LIVES!, Beginning Tonight

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present Oakwood Lives! for audiences of all ages today and Saturday, May 29th and 30th at 6:30pm and Sunday, May 31st, 2015 at 2 pm at the Oakwood Cemetery at 701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and are available at Oakwood Cemetery on the date of performance. For more information, call 919. 834. 4001 or visit us at www.burningcoal.org.

Burning Coal's annual collaboration with Oakwood cemetery features a series of vignettes about the lives of those who cam before us. This year's Oakwood Lives! focuses on the quiet revolutionaries of Raleigh's past, including notables such as: Raleigh's Peanut Man, who sold peanuts at the capitol for many years; Cornelia Lewis Battle, newswoman, educator, lawyer, reformer, and poet; and Dr. Michael Hoke, orthopedic doctor and philanthropist.

Oakwood Lives! will be directed by Jackie Knollhuff of Burning Coal Theatre Company. Oakwood Lives! will include: Peanut Man by Brook North, She Talks to Herself by Kim Vanfelton, One Story by Ian Finley, Needham B. Broughton by John Paul Middlesworth, Incidentally by Robin Carmon Marshall, Rufus Honor by Monet Noelle Marshall, Defender of the Dead by Laura Arwood, and Made Whole by Adam Maule.

Our cast this year includes local talent, featuring Katie Barrett, Josie Bodle, Elizabeth Carter, DJ Curtis, Ann Forshthoefel, Sid Harrell, George Jack, and Douglas Knapp.

For further information, contact Burning Coal's managing director, Simmie Kastner, at 919.834.4001 or visit our website at www.burningcoal.com.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's intimate, professional theatres. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and international artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.

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