Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Towne Street Theatre presents Black Annie & the Pastor

February 26, 2023 • 4:00 pm

Donation
1Ee2F858 2084 44D8 8Ab6 78353Eac9569

Towne Street Theatre’s Reading Series presents Black Annie and The Pastor, written & directed by Tony Robinson. This new drama takes us behind the photograph and exposes the true story of that fateful day in August 1930. It, too, is a day that lives in infamy. A day that singer Billie Holiday immortalized in her heart-wrenching recording “Strange Fruit.”

In August of 1930, a mob numbering ten to fifteen thousand white people dragged two African American teens, from their jail cells in Marion Indiana and lynched them on the courthouse grounds. The word went out that their bodies were to remain hanging to “send a message.”

Pastor J. E. Johnson and three other African American men from nearby Muncie, at a time when almost thirty percent of white Protestant men belonged to the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, defiantly drove to Marion, retrieved those bodies, and took them to be properly prepared for burial. This act of unheralded bravery has faded from memory… until now.

Featuring: RJ Wayne, Mack Miles, Anthony Johnson, Raymond Mitchell, John Alexander, Jeremiah Benjamin, William Warren, KPD, Veronica Thompson, Aneisha Hughes, Charlotte Williams, Tamara Koltes, Daphne Jones, Skylar Silverlake, Wil Bowers, Steven Guire Knight, David Macdonald, Amani Atkinson, Major Culbert, and Aron Cobb.

Narrated by: Nancy Renee and Teressa Taylor

Produced by: Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy, Veronica Thompson, Kristina Roth & Teressa Taylor.

Graphic Design: Jaimyon Parker

Details

Date:
February 26, 2023
Time:
4:00 pm
Cost:
Donation
Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/towne-street-theatre-presents-black-annie-and-the-pastor-tickets-525265562437

Venue

Virtual

Organizer

Towne Street Theatre
View Organizer Website