‘Abolitionists’ Museum’ play Saturday at East End church
11/13/2015, 1:32 p.m.
Nat Turner, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and John Brown and other 19th-century freedom fighters will be portrayed in the play “Abolitionists’ Museum” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14.
Location: Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, 823 N. 31st St., in the East End.
The play, free and open to the public, was written by Portsmouth playwright Sheri Bailey, who owns SB, Ink production company.
In the play, eight trailblazers who had a major impact on the American slavery narrative are wax figures living in a museum where the curator has hung a Confederate flag.
Using their actual words from speeches and writings mixed in with contemporary references, the characters debate and then vote on whether or not to burn the flag.
A discussion will follow the play, with audience members being asked to cast their votes.
Information: Contact Ms. Bailey at (757) 609-7066 or email sheribailey99@yahoo.com.
