February 25, 2010 7:00pm
The Peter Glenville Theater at Professional Children's School
132 West 60th Street
New York, New York
Award winning playwright Ifa Bayeza, author of the acclaimed epic drama, “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” talks about her ten-year odyssey, bringing this seminal American saga to the contemporary stage, and reads excerpts from the play hailed as “riveting — triumphant,” “a masterful look at history” and “a major American work.”
“The Ballad of Emmett Till” is based on the brutal 1955 Mississippi murder of Chicago black youth Emmett Till a month after his fourteenth birthday and is a contemporary telling of Emmett's story, a jazz integration of past and present, the events as seen from the perspective of the youth himself.
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