A Reading of James Baldwin's THE AMEN CORNER

Name: A Reading of James Baldwin's THE AMEN CORNER
Start: 2025-02-23T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Immanuel Congregational Church, UCC

Schedule

Sun, 23 Feb, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Immanuel Congregational Church, UCC | Hartford, CT

Charter Oak Cultural Center and Immanuel Congregational Church present
A Reading of James Baldwin's
THE AMEN CORNER
Directed by taneisha duggan
Sunday, February 23 at 3PM
Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT
For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.
For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. THE AMEN CORNER is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
Tickets: $15; No one turned away for lack of funds. For tickets, click here: https://events.humanitix.com/amencorner