'Birthright' Opens At Billie Holiday Theatre 5/16

 On August 23rd, 2005 Tropical Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in our history, flooded almost all of New Orleans and many of its neighboring parishes for weeks.  It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded causing $82.1 billion of damage and costing at least 1,900 lives.
 
 Award-winning author/director Jackie Alexander's "BIRTHRIGHT" takes place one year after Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana, fifteen miles northeast of New Orleans.
 
"BIRTHRIGHT" will have its World Premiere at the Billie Holiday Theatre ( 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) on Friday, May 16th where it will run through Sunday, June 29th.
 
Produced by Marjorie Moon and directed by author Jackie Alexander, "BIRTHRIGHT" will feature Victor Dickerson, Suzette Azariah Gunn, Stephen Hill, Nedra McClyde, Jaime Lincoln Smith and Susan Spain.
 
It is an intensely volcanic drama centering around the Thomas and Boudreaux families. The play opens at the start of the 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season. But the storm brewing inside the Boudreaux and Thomas homes is one that has been gaining strength for fifteen years; its origins cemented in infidelity and domestic abuse. Katrina's ravages pale in contrast to the damages inflicted on these families by the inescapable demons of their childhood.
 
"BIRTHRIGHT" is a two-act, high-stakes, fearless depiction of the impossibly hard choices five human beings are forced to make in hopes of staying together without drowning in the destructive legacies handed down to them.
 
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