The Sunflower County Freedom Project Drama Troup’s production of Baltimore, a stage play by author Kirstin Greenidge, is making its way around the Delta.
It’s most recent stop was at the Moorhead Library last Wednesday.
This year’s play, Baltimore, is a timely drama about racism on college campuses.
“Each year we pick a different production and we put on a different play,” said Kandace Stevenson, director of college access and experiential learning for the Sunflower County Freedom Project.
Stevenson said, “The play tackles a lot of race issues on a college campus.
They talk about self-identity and also the importance of realizing that color does exist and that realism and racism can be taught and learned at a young age and how on a college campus we have to combat and fight those things that are taught to us as we grow older.”
The group’s first performance was February 1, and in addition to the Moorhead presentation, their schedule included a performance in Greenville on Friday and a Tuesday presentation at the Fannie Lou Hamer Museum. Their final performance is set for tomorrow in Clarksdale.
Stevenson said a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council has funded their theatrical presentations for the past three years.
“We have been able to put on productions around the Mississippi Delta,” she said, “They have sponsored us as far as for travel, purchasing the play and making sure we’re able to bring the life of stage theater into the Mississippi Delta area.”
The Moorhead Library has hosted the group’s performances for all three years.
The production features seventh through tenth grade actors Kennedye Rash, Ashli Brown, Phillystity Gray, Jamiyah McCloud and Jarmarvus Thornton of Indianola, Devuente Byrd , Kendra Womack, Braelyn Ingram—Ruleville, Shirlencia Smith—Sunflower.
