Missing Mississippi Moons

and

Selma ‘65

a duet of solo performances shining light on the deep racial inequities and racial tensions that plague our country

October 23-30, 2020, online only on Broadway on Demand and co-produced with Vegas Theatre Company

Missing Mississippi Moons

Written and Performed by Antonio Duke

Inspired by his grandfather’s story, actor/playwright Antonio Duke creates Missing Mississippi Moons, a mosaic of characters evoked through ritual and ancestral heritage, struggling to find their power in the time of Jim Crow. Framed by the epic flood of 1927 in Greenville Mississippi, Edward Ash comes home to bury his father, Jake. As Edward remembers working with his father to carve out his community’s escape, he finds himself at the intersection of grief, racial violence and hope. 

Selma ‘65

Written by Catherine Filloux

Performed by Kymberly Luke Mellen

Directed by Kym Longhi

Eighteen years later in the light of Mississippi Moons, we meet a white ally named Viola Liuzzo in “Selma 65.”  Driving fellow marchers home she was pursued, shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Embedded with the Klan and first-hand witness to her murder was Gary (Tommy) Rowe, an undercover FBI informant.    In playwright Catherine Filloux’s reimagining, Viola’s story and Tommy’s come face to face in a violent encounter that examines the soul of white America.