Clackamas Repertory Theater’s west coast premiere of Queens Girl in the World
Written By: Caleen Sinnette Jennings,
Directed By: Damaris Webb, Featuring: Lauren Steele
September 5-29:
Thursday-Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:30pm
Preview September 5, Opening night 7:30pm 9/6
Queens Girl in the World, the hit play of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington, D.C., is a charming, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young black girl in the 60s. This one-woman show includes not just our heroine, the engaging Jacqueline Marie Butler, but 12 more characters including her Caribbean father, imperious mother, girlfriends and boyfriends, as she moves from the safety of her sheltered Queens neighborhood to a new school in Greenwich Village. There, where she is one of only four black students and where race suddenly matters, she begins to wonder where she belongs in the world.
Tickets
Clackamas Repertory Theater
19600 Molalla Avenue
Oregon City, OR 97045
POST-SHOW LECTURE
– Dr. Maude Hines, Professor of English and African American Studies at Portland State University
“Racial Encounters: Queens Girl in the World and the Legacy of Twentieth-Century African American Childhood in Fiction”
Sundays: September 8, 15, 22 at 4:30 p.m.
PRE-SHOW LECTURES
– Percy Hampton, Founding Member Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party
“The Black Panthers in 1960s Portland”
Saturdays: September 14, 21, 28 at 6:30 p.m.
– Dr. Pancho Savery, Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College
“Black Politics in the 1960s”
Thursdays: September 12, 19, 26 6:30 p.m.