Freedom Sisters: Stamping, Shouting & Singing Home, by Lisa Evans, is now performing through March 4 at the Coterie Theatre, Level 1 Crown Center Shops. The play recounts the story of one family's fight for freedom and progress as told by twelve-year-old Lizzie Walker.
It is 1950s America, the Deep South; a world on the verge of change but still tainted by everyday injustices and the remnants of slavery. "In my family there's dead people hopping in and out of the conversation all the time." One of those dead people is Lizzie's great-great-great grandmother Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter of slavery, whose voice could not be silenced. As Lizzie unpacks the past, she listens to Sojourner and, in the process, discovers her own voice...fearless, joyful, full of resolve."It's about a girl learning form her family's history and through the process finds her own voice," said MeghAnn Henry, co-director of Freedom Sisters: Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home. "It's a mixture of history, family, civil rights and women's rights. It's also about standing up for yourself."Freedom Sisters is funded in part by the Missouri Arts Council (MAC) and the ArtsKC Fund. Prior to performing at the Coterie, this production toured to 15 schools and libraries in the metropolitan area, reaching approximately 6,000 students and educators.Videos