ENSEMBLE Opens Its 39th Consecutive Season With ALABAMA STORY!
By: A.A. Cristi Aug. 13, 2018
A gentle children's book with an apparent hidden message - a black rabbit marries a white rabbit! - stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and the no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama, just as the civil rights movement is flowering. Another story of childhood friends - an African-American man and a white woman, reunited in adulthood in Montgomery that same year - provides private counterpoint to the public events of the play.
Alabama Story was the finalist for several major playwriting awards including the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. With over a dozen professional productions across the country, Ensemble is proud to bring this wonderfully important play to the stage for its Ohio Premiere!
"I wrote Alabama Story several years before our current political moment, but the characters, ideas and themes that surface in the play seem more alive than ever: it's a story of censorship, saber-rattling politicians, persecuted women, Southerners dismissing national opinions, naked racism, threatened civil rights, attacks on the free flow of information. It's also a love story, a political thriller and, at times, a comedy. Really. The play is set in 1959, and it's both heartening and horrifying to me that everything old is new again. Inspired by true events, I ended up writing a play about how we treat each other in times of social crisis. I'm excited that Alabama Story is getting its Ohio Premiere by Ensemble Theatre in a time when conversations about the quality of American character are so highly charged." -Kenneth Jones
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With an amazing cast and crew of LOCAL artists!
Ensemble Members:
Anne McEvoy as Emily Reed.
Joseph Milan as Senator Higgins
Craig Joseph as Garth Williams
And introducing new members to the Ensemble Family:
Cody Kilpatrick Steele as Thomas Franklin
Cody Kilpatrick Steele as Thomas Franklin
Eugene Sumlin as Josh Moore
Adrienne Jones as Lily Whitfield.
Executive Artistic Director/Producer: Celeste Cosentino
Associate Artistic Director/Director: Tyler Whidden
General Manager/Production Stage Manager: Becca Moseley
Light and Sound Design by Ian Hinz
Set Design by Walter Boswell
Technical Director August Scarpelli
Costume Design by Meg Parish
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