A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage

01/13/2025 - 04/28/2025

Description

CPG presents A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage April 17-27, Thursday through Sunday. 

The show takes place in Atalnta, Georgia, outside the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Coretta Scott King's body lay in state before burial. It is a conversation between five Black women from different walks of life as they talk about King's influence on their life, amoung others. Cleage wrote the play as a tibute to women like King, Toni Morrison, Rosa Parks, Dorothy Height and other instumental Black female leaders.

Pearl Cleage is an African American playwright, essayist, and novelist who tackles issues at the crux of racism and sexism. Known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman, Cleage writes stories that are concerned with how Black women enter the world. Her works are highly anthologized and have been the subject of many scholarly analyses. Many of her works across several genres have earned both popular and critical acclaim. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997) was a 1998 Oprah's Book Club selection. 

Thursday-Sunday house opens at 7pm, shows begin at 730pm. Sundays house opens at 130pm, shows begin at 2pm.

All tickets are held at will call.