Product Code: E42000
Full-length Play
Recommended For:
High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 4w. (3 of the males are black-all doubles, the 4 women are black-3 doubling, 2 of the men are white-doubles.)
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit celebrates the life and voice of African American contralto Marian Anderson. Taking place on the eve of the First Annual World Negro Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal, 1966, Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit paints a sweeping portrait of Anderson as a complex artist and troubled woman moving slowly toward middle age and the evolving image of black people during the precarious Civil Rights Movement.
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