Spring Play Reading Series

Submitted by tctc on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 06:01

Presented by the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center
Additional Support Provided by Turner Broadcasting

Join us for readings of these works by professional actors and help us choose work for our upcoming season.

These are evenings that are sure not to be missed.

May 18-19, 2010 @ 7 PM
Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center
3181 Rainbow Drive
Decatur, GA 30034

Free Parking

Free and Open to the Public

  • Tuesday, May 18 -Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Kenny Leon
  • Wednesday, May 19 -Harriet Jacobs by Lydia Diamond, directed by Jade Lambert-Smith

    • Special Celebrity Reading to Benefit True Colors' Education Programming

  • Friday, May 21 @ 8 PM - A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller, directed by Derrick Sanders

    • Featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Pickens from "Grey's Anatomy" and Eugene Lee
    Limited Capacity, Tickets $100 in advance. To make your reservation call 404.588.0308

    BROKE-OLOGY
    To the King family sacrifice is not new but love has kept them together. Dad remains in his home in the lower middle class neighborhood where he raised his two sons, even as the complications of his deteriorating health become increasingly worse. When the question is raised of how to take care of their ailing father, the two brothers find themselves strangely at odds. This true-to-life comic drama encourages us to stay linked to our roots no matter where life takes us.

    Featuring Jasmine Guy & Kenny Leon

    HARRIET JACOBS
    Based on the autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897), the story of a remarkable woman’s resistance to oppression, who endures the hardships of slavery and in order to preserve the safety of her family, decides to take her children and run. Harriet reaches out from her own era and compels us to look at our history as if for the first time, in this unsparing yet poetic coming-of-age story based on the only published book-length slave narrative written by a woman.

    A SOLDIER'S PLAY
    Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning mystery-thriller concerning the racially-charged investigation of the killing of a black sergeant in an all-black regiment on an army base in Louisiana in 1944. As the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the killing proceeds, the psychological complexities of the case come to the forefront, and easy stereotypical judgments become questionable and are, one-by-one, refuted. The play, which is flawlessly structured as a classic whodunit, provides a mesmerizing narrative and delivers at the same time a scorching commentary on ingrained bigotry, racism, and social injustice