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Coco Queens by LaDarrion Williams

October 19 • 8:00 pm - November 17 • 8:00 pm
$15 – $40
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Outside In Theatre and Blackgical Productions present

Coco Queens

Written by LaDarrion Williams

Directed by Jessica E. Williams

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Coco Queens is set in a small Alabama town during the 1970s and follows four Black women whose lives have been shaped by love, loss, ambition, betrayal, and sisterhood. Each year, the women gather inside Gloria’s neighborhood beauty shop for Coco Queens Weekend, a tradition filled with food, music, laughter, reflection, and healing. When long-buried secrets begin to surface, they are forced to confront the wounds that have divided them and decide whether truth can help guide them back to one another.

At its heart, Coco Queens is a celebration of the ways Black women and their communities have always created spaces to care for one another, even in the face of forces designed to pull them apart. Through music, memory, ritual, laughter, and the simple act of gathering, these women find the courage to lay down what they have been carrying and make room for healing.

Set in 1975 Alabama, the play honors the generations who came before while asking a question that remains deeply relevant today: How do we care for one another when the world gives us every reason not to? Coco Queens invites audiences into a space where joy is resistance, remembrance is renewal, and healing begins when we choose not to carry our burdens alone.

 

RUNTIME | approx. 2 hours

INTERMISSION | 15 minutes

 

TALK BACK SERIES

Select performances will include the “Talk Back Series” pre-show and post-show conversations designed to further explore the themes of the play with the artists and creatives who worked on the production, and the community at large. The “Talk Back Series” will take place on the following dates either in Outside In’s café & lounge The Lobby before the show OR before the show or in the ArtSpace immediately following a matinee performance.

  • Oct 27 : PRE-SHOW | TBD
  • Nov 3 : PRE-SHOW | TBD
  • Nov 8 : POST-SHOW | Creatives
  • Nov 9 : PRE-SHOW |TBD
  • Nov 10 : PRE-SHOW | TBD
  • Nov 15 : POST-SHOW  | TBD
  • Nov 16 : PRE-SHOW | TBD

 

For Outside In, co-producing this production with the amazing artists involved is another example of actively following their mission to make space to be brave and share it with the community, creating care and reflection that will lead to change, one audience member at a time.

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