Crowns Plays Electric City Playhouse May 19- June 5

CROWNS plays May 19 - June 5 At ECP. Adapted by ReGina Taylor and directed by Cecilia A. Sampson, Crowns is a moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. Gospel music and dance underscore and support the narratives. The conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional and older Southern blacks, embracing hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.

May 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 June 2, 3, 4 and 5
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 3PM

Tickets are available now and are $17 for Adults, $15 for Seniors and $10 for Students, with discounts for large groups available. Please call the Box Office at (864) 224-4248 for tickets.

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