Fountain Square Players presents: From The Mississippi Delta

Fountain Square Players presents From the Mississippi Delta by Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland and directed by Jeff Moore.  The play will run March 11th through March 13th with performances at 8pm and on Sunday March 14th with a matinee at 3pm.

Holland’s play is a Pulitzer Prize nominee. It won the Drama-Logue Theater Award winner for Playwriting. “A beautifully courageous play.” says Lorraine Hansberry, award-winning author.

The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi – the Delta. “In my Delta town, some black girls aspired to become the woman. Others could make it by going to the cotton fields, working from sun to sun, for just about three dollars a day, “It is those and other dreadful experiences that inspire her to dream far beyond the funny-paper walls in her drafty shotgun house in Dixie Lane Alley.

On her 11th birthday, Phelia’s childhood is brutally stolen from her by a white man. She attempts to join a minstrel show as an exotic dancer. At 14 she has quit school and spent time in jail, and by 16, she is an unwed mother. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee comes to town, and Phelia is swept into the momentum of the civil rights movement. Phelia goes of to meet her destiny in the North. The journey ends, 20 20 years later as Phelia “buck-dances” across the stage at the University of Minnesota to accept her Ph.D.

The performance will be held at The Phoenix Theatre at 545 Morris Alley.  Tickets are $12 for adults; $10 for students and seniors and $8 for children under 12.  For more information or to purchase tickets online visit www.fountainsquareplayers.org.

Fountain Square Players is a community theatre group incorporated in 1978 whose purpose is to provide for the production, appreciation, and enjoyment of all phases of the theater.  The organization welcomes the participation of newcomers to perform or serve as part of the crew.