Parallel Lives

A play by Beverly Coyle and Bill Maxwell / Featuring Peg O’Keef and Joe Reed / Directed by Jerry Klein

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We’ve broken racial barriers in politics.

  Now are we prepared to tell the truth?

 

 

Garden Theatre, Winter Garden

 

January 8 and 9, 2010

Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM

 

Tickets: 407-877- GRDN

http://www.gardentheatre.org/ 

 
 
They grew up only miles apart but were segregated into different worlds.  Years later, two unlikely colleagues tour Florida’s historic “lynching belt” to confront the legacy of Jim Crow in their pasts and just under their skins.  
 
Filled with humor and courage, Parallel Lives creates thunderous resonance in these remarkable times.

 

Moderated discussion forums will be held following the performances.
 
                   
 
 
 

 

Also March 19

Blake Library, Stuart, Florida

 

Now Booking

2010 - 2011

 

See "Contact Us" for contact info

 

 

 

What others say about Parallel Lives 
 

“A beacon brightly illuminating our dark past…” 

--Joy Dickinson, Orlando Sentinel

see complete article

 

“Will surely resonate very strongly with every audience.”

--Dr. E. Ann McGee, President, Seminole Community College

see complete letter

 

West Orange Times, January 8, 2009

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Orlando Sentinel, January 9, 2009

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Archikulture Digest, December 14, 2009

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This production was originally presented in October 2008 by the Department of Theatre at Seminole Community College.
 
Special Thanks to Paul Luby, Chair of Arts & Communications, and Richard Harmon, faculty member, for their vigilance in making it happen.