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CPCC Theatre Presents JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE, Now thru 4/19

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CPCC Theatre will present August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone tonight, April 10th - 19th in the Pease Auditorium on the CPCC Central Campus as part of the college's Sensoria Festival. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone is directed by Corlis Hayes.

Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of this century. Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife.

Tickets are available at the SunTrust Box Office at 704-330-6534 or online at CPCCTix tix.cpcc.edu 24/7 or at the door.. Special rate for all students $5.00 with valid ID.

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