Rick Dildine (ASF Artistic Director) and Lydia Fort (Director, Nina Simone: Four Women) offers a preshow guide to our production of NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN.
The production uses the framework of one of Simone’s most powerful songs, “Four Women,” to explore four stereotypes of Black womanhood: Aunt Sarah, Sephronia, Sweet Thing, and Peaches. In the play, the characters take a personal and provocative musical journey that leads them down a path of discovery and healing with songs such as “His Eye is on the Sparrow,” “Old Jim Crow,” “Mississippi Goddam,” “Go Limp,” and “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.”
Written by Christina Ham
Directed by Lydia Fort
Alabama Shakespeare Festival 2019
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