Karen Jones Meadow's HARRIET's RETURN Ends Run at Intimate Octagon Stage, 2/28

Underground Railroad conductor and American hero Harriet Tubman's life will be dramatized on the stage of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Karen Jones Meadow's inspiring one-woman show Harriet's Return: Based Upon the Legendary life of Harriett Tubman, February 5-28.

Karen Jones Meadows not only wrote Harriet's Return but she will also perform more than 30 characters in this tour de force production. Public Radio describEd Jones Meadow's play and performance as "remarkable" and Pauline Copes-Johnson (Harriet Tubman's Great-Grandniece) said "The performance...the story...the energy... the truth...all flawless."

In Harriet's Return a modern day African American woman is transformed by the spirit of Harriet Tubman and tells her story from enduring the cruelty of slavery and her brave escape, to guiding hundreds of slaves to freedom in the mid 1800s, to her selfless service to the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout and spy. In the early part of the 20th Century, she worked with the likes of Susan B. Anthony in the fight to secure rights for women. Tubman died in 1913 in a facility she built for indigent African Americans.

Playwright and actress Karen Jones Meadows has been the lead or featured performer in 28 commercials, several films and television shows, and multiple theatre productions. Her most recent role was Hailee Parks in the film The Gift. Since writing Harriet's Return, Jones Meadows has devoted most of her time touring her show nationally and internationally.

In addition to 16 public performances of Harriet's Return there will be 11 Alfa Schoofest student matinee productions. All of the Alfa Schoolfest presentations are full and a waiting list has been created.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is located at 1 Festival Drive in Montgomery, Alabama.

Tickets range from $25 to $39 and are available by calling 800.841.4273 or online at www.asf.net.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is among the largest Shakespeare theatres in the world. Designated as The State Theatre of Alabama, ASF has been located in Montgomery since 1985 when it moved from Anniston as a result of Mr. and Mrs. Wynton M. Blount's gift of a performing arts complex set in the 250-acre Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park.

This program/project has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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