Down in Mississippi

by Carlyle Brown
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 1:30pm
Venue: 
Playwrights' Center
Cost: 
Free; no RSVP necessary

Join us for a free public reading of Core Writer Carlyle Brown’s play Down in Mississippi on Tuesday, February 23 at noon at the Playwrights’ Center. No RSVP needed.

Director: Noël Raymond
Cast: Mikell Sapp, Adelin Phelps, Tony Sarnicki

Synopsis: Three college students—an African-American man, a white woman, and a white man—as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee travel to the dangerous world of Mississippi in 1964 to register Mississippi Negroes to vote. Along the way they discover that they have to change themselves in order to change the world.