"THE FRONT PORCH"
A New Play by George Bailey
Director: George Bailey
Assistant Director: Joyce DeJesus
Drama. June 1 - 10, 2018
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 2:00pm
Lamplighters Community Theatre
5915 Severin Drive
La Mesa, CA 91942-3806
(619) 303-5092
For information: https://www.lamplighterslamesa.com/special-event
For tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/
***With talk-back after the show with playwright and actors.***
In the fall of 1967, Clara, a white widow, stubbornly refuses her daughter's insistence she move from her home in Baltimore where she's lived for 30 years; due to increasing racial tensions in the country and because her new neighbors are black. Although she's a bit apprehensive about them at first, in time, she eventually develops a warm relationship. When Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in the spring of 1968, tensions explode throughout the city and both families are caught in the middle of a race riot. Through their shared experiences; they come to appreciate and value their neighborhood and community, confront their fears and prejudices and become true friends
Cast and Creative Team for "The Front Porch" - a new play at Lamplighters Community Theatre
Janelle Johnson: Portia
Jerome Johnson: JaVon Clarke
Clara Baines: Jo Darlene Reardon
Virginia Sawyer: Michelle Burkhart