Pearl Cleage's Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard

Name: Pearl Cleage's Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard
Start: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+0000
End: 08/11/2024
Location: Alliance Theatre

SOLD OUT – If you missed Something Moving, we invite you to join us for The Mountaintop.

“Good plays are always in conversation with the audience, but they are also in conversation with other plays. In the case of Something Moving and The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, we were independently moved by the lives of two of Atlanta's most famous native sons, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Maynard Jackson, focusing on each man’s greatness without ignoring their humanity.” – Pearl Cleage, Playwright

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By Pearl Cleage
Directed by David Koté

Award-winning author and playwright Pearl Cleage explores the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first African American mayor, from the vantage point of an artist and an insider – Cleage served as Jackson's press secretary during his campaign and followed him into City Hall for two years as Director of Communications. In choosing to tell the story of this 1973 landmark election, Cleage creates a cast of characters drawn from her own participation in this transformative moment in our city's history. By looking back, Cleage invites us to reflect on the meaning of leadership and the kind of future we want to build.

Commissioned by Ford’s Theatre as part of The Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions

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Award-winning author and playwright Pearl Cleage explores the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African American mayor.

Aug 2 – Aug 11, 2024

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SOLD OUT – If you missed Something Moving, we invite you to join us for The Mountaintop.

“Good plays are always in conversation with the audience, but they are also in conversation with other plays. In the case of Something Moving and The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, we were independently moved by the lives of two of Atlanta’s most famous native sons, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Maynard Jackson, focusing on each man’s greatness without ignoring their humanity.” – Pearl Cleage, Playwright

GET TICKETS TO THE MOUNTAINTOP

By Pearl Cleage
Directed by David Koté

Award-winning author and playwright Pearl Cleage explores the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African American mayor, from the vantage point of an artist and an insider – Cleage served as Jackson’s press secretary during his campaign and followed him into City Hall for two years as Director of Communications. In choosing to tell the story of this 1973 landmark election, Cleage creates a cast of characters drawn from her own participation in this transformative moment in our city’s history. By looking back, Cleage invites us to reflect on the meaning of leadership and the kind of future we want to build.