Falcon Theatre is now selling tickets to Bourbon at the Border, a Pearl Cleage play that follows two college students during the 1964 Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Performances are on August 5, 6, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. and on August 7 and 14 at 2 p.m. at the Newport theater.
Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $15 for students with valid IDs.
The play is about May and Charlie, who join hundreds of other Americans in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 for a voter registration drive.
“As students at Howard University, their campus activism had been met with calls to their parents and threats of expulsion,” Falcon Theater described the play in a press release. “The stakes in Mississippi were a lot higher. White supremacists, outraged at the challenge to their segregated way of life, responded with violence that left three civil rights workers dead and many wounded. Soon after, President Johnson deployed thousands of American soldiers to fight the Vietnam War.
“Four decades later, their heroic fight for racial justice and freedom still haunts them as they struggle to make sense of their lives and look for hope in their future.”
Bourbon on the Border features actors Torie Wiggins, Dathan Hooper, Kyndra Jefferies, and James Christian, Jr., among others.
Visit falcontheater.net for details and to reserve your seats.
