Please note: After I Shall Not Be Moved concludes, there will be an intermission after which Your Negro Tour Guide will be performed. No additional ticket is required.

SYNOPSIS:

Double Bill

I Shall Not Be Moved by Isaiah Reaves recounts the story of Reaves's grandmother, nationally recognized Civil Rights pioneer Betty Daniels Rosemond and her beautiful, horrifying, and trailblazing journey through the American South as one of the first Freedom Riders during the 1960s.

The updated one-woman stage adaptation of Your Negro Tour Guide draws heavily from columns and National Public Radio commentaries collected in Kathy Y. Wilson’s book, Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black & White based on her former CityBeat column. Throwing a glaring light on misguided notions of natural Black beauty, Black homophobia, intra-racial bigotry, and other cultural stereotypes, this play allows us, once and for all, to laugh at every secret we’ve held against and sideways glance we’ve cast at “The Other,” whoever they happen to be.

Directed by Torie Wiggins (I Shall Not Be Moved) & Jeff Griffin (Your Negro Tour Guide)

Performed by Samantha Russell (I Shall Not Be Moved) & Torie Wiggins (Your Negro Tour Guide)