Season Opening! April 15 @ 7:30 p.m.
Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
Adapted to the Stage
by Cheryl Palmour
April 15-16, 22-23, 2011
7:30 p.m.
This project is Family Theatre’s second in collaboration with the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries.
This heart-wrenching historical picture book, based on a true story, presents us with two men from the Union army who meet after a battle of the Civil War. Say, the white younger man, has been wounded. Pink, a black man, carries him home to where his mother is surviving in ruins of a deserted plantation. Pink is determined to rejoin his unit in spite of mother’s protest. Say, who was deserting when wounded, only agrees because of the danger they present to Pink’s mother. Marauders come and kill her while they hide in the cellar. On the way to the front lines they are captured by confederates and taken to Andersonville prison, Pink is hung. Say survives to become author’s great-great grandfather.
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