Metroactive » Alabama Story https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 ‘Alabama Story’ at City Lights Theatre https://activate.metroactive.com/2018/01/alabama-story-at-city-lights-theatre/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2018/01/alabama-story-at-city-lights-theatre/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:19:29 +0000 http://wp.blvdscms.com/activate-metroactive-com/?p=120515
On the cusp of the 1960s, America’s civil rights movement had only just begun. While it’s clear—even in 2018—how far we still have to go, Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story gives us a glimpse of how far we’ve come. The story follows librarian Emily Wheelock Reed as she champions Garth Williams’ controversial children’s…]]>

On the cusp of the 1960s, America’s civil rights movement had only just begun. While it’s clear—even in 2018—how far we still have to go, Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story gives us a glimpse of how far we’ve come. The story follows librarian Emily Wheelock Reed as she champions Garth Williams’ controversial children’s book The Rabbits’ Wedding, a love story between two rabbits, one black and one white. Jones’ play comes to the West Coast for the first time, as City Lights Theatre takes audiences back to 1959 and segregation-era Alabama.

Alabama Story
Thu, 8pm, $19+
City Lights Theatre, San Jose

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