Joe Jefferson Playhouse: Anne and Emmett (Season extra- Limited Run!)
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Date/Time
Date(s) - January 15, 2023
2:00 pm
Location
Joe Jefferson Playhouse
Categories
Auditions: October 10th and 11th at 6:30 p.m. at the theater; Callbacks October 12th at 6:30 p.m. if needed
Anne and Emmett, by Janet Langhart Cohen, is a play about an imagined conversation between two figures from history – teenagers, who were the victims of institutional terrorism. The discussion takes places between Anne Frank, a Jewish girl killed in 1945 during the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, a young black man, from Chicago, murdered while visiting family in Mississippi in 1955. They meet in a place called Memory, where they share their experiences with bigotry and injustice, highlighting the striking similarities between their horrific deaths.