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Burning Coal Theatre Company, a small professional, theatre based in Raleigh will conclude its 2008/2009 season with the world premiere of 1960, written by Ian Finley and the Burning Coal Theatre Company, directed by Jerome Davis, Burning Coal’s Artistic Director. The production runs April 9 - 26, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School! **Performances are April 9 – 11, 16 – 18 and 23 – 25 at 7:30 pm and April 12, 19 and 26 at 2 p.m.**All performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. All tickets are $20 or $15 (students, seniors 65+ and active military personnel). Thursday night tickets are $10 apiece. We also have $5 student rush tickets available 5 minutes before each performance. The first Sunday of the run, April 12th at 2 p.m. will be the ‘Pay What You Can’ performance. The first Saturday, April 11th at 7:30 p.m. will be audio described for the visually impaired. About 1960In the summer of 1960, the Raleigh City School Board met and voted to begin the desegregation of Raleigh City Schools. That September, a seven year old African American student began the second grade at the Murphey School. He was the first black student to attend a white school in Raleigh. This series of events capped off a years-long battle that began with the passage of Brown vs the Board of Education. About the Playwright. Ian Finley is education director for Burning Coal Theatre Company. He holds an MFA in playwriting from NYU and an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah. He has been published and has had productions of his plays in six states, including New York, Florida, Utah and North Carolina. His past work includes a series of “Oakwood Plays” about the bizarre and wonderful people now buried in the Oakwood cemetery whose lives once graced or scandalized Raleigh. Other members of the Burning Coal company, including Jen Suchanec, Sherida McMullan, Morag Charlton, Jerome Davis, Lynn Guglielmi and others contributed to the writing of the play through interviews with surviving participants of the civil rights movement or their children and research into the civil rights era.About the Director. Jerome Davis is Burning Coal’s founding artistic director. His work for the company includes Hysteria, The Prisoner’s Dilemma (American premiere), Hamlet, Rat in the Skull, Pentecost (twice), Winding the Ball (American premiere), The Steward of Christendom, The Weir, Night and Day, Inherit the Wind, and others. He has worked as an actor with Trinity Rep in Providence, Philadelphia’s People’s Light & Theatre Company, the New Jersey Shakespeare Company, Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theatre, Columbia University, the MINT, 29th Street Rep, Soho Rep, Phoenix Theatre and the Barrow Group. He has worked with or studied with Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzarra, Adrian Hall, Richard Jenkins, Steve Harris, Amanda Peet, Hope Davis, David Wheeler, Ralph Waite, Nikos Psacharapolous and Julie Bovasso.ABOUT THE CAST & CREW. The cast of 1960 includes Warren Keyes, Joan J, Corey Banks, Emelia Cowens, Greg Paul, Ann Cole, Aaron Wright, Jackson Bloom, Tara Polhemus, Al Singer, Olivia Wells and Kaimy Masse. Lighting design by Christopher Popowich of Pittsburgh, PA, set design by Simmie Kastner or Cary, NC, properties by Lauren Sexton of Raleigh, costumes by Kelly Farrow of Raleigh, musical director Julie Florin of Raleigh.Choreography by Amy Murphy of Raleigh.Burning Coal Theatre Company224 Polk Street Raleigh, NC (919) 834-4001
When: Apr 23, 2009 12:00:00 AM Where: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States in Raleigh,North Carolina Posted by:rollup
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