Illuminating Bayard Rustin
People's Light & TheatreA Q&A will follow the performance, as well as a short lecture by activist-historian Penny Washington.
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Round out the Phoenixville Juneteenth celebration with Illuminating Bayard Rustin, a condensed performance of People’s Light’s production Bayard Rustin Inside Ashland, a work from their New Play Frontiers residency program.
Chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and openly gay Civil Rights activist, Bayard Rustin was nearly written out of the history books. This world premiere play soars with African-American spirituals and offers a glimpse into a transformative moment for young Rustin—his 1944 prison sentence in Ashland, Kentucky. While incarcerated and targeted for his sexuality, Rustin puts his faith in nonviolent resistance to the test, illuminating what it means to be branded a “troublemaker” within a system stacked against you.
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