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Friend, Want to have a night at the theater without leaving your home AND support our work at the SPLC? Tonight you have the chance to do both. This evening, Intiman Theatre in Seattle is presenting an online reading of the play Under Big Piney. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated directly to the SPLC. The suggested donation per ticket is $25, and they can be purchased here. (If you can’t make it tonight, the show recording will be available for ticketholders to stream until Sunday, June 27.) Under Big Piney MAKE A DONATION / PURCHASE TICKETS Synopsis: Racial and sexual politics collide when an idealistic white man from New York travels to the South to petition for the removal of a Confederate statue. The only problem is, he soon falls in love with the town’s conservative Black mayor. The ensuing courtship is chaotic and forces everyone – Black and white – to confront their shared history. Will demolishing the statue heal the town or further divide it? Under Big Piney was written by John Jiler and developed over the past year by the Actors Studio and with director Leah Gardiner (For Colored Girls… at New York’s Public Theatre). This online reading will be performed by an array of award-winning actors including Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother Where Art Thou, Watchmen) and Gloria Reuben (ER, Lincoln). The reading is directed for Zoom by Corey Atkins. Ticket sales proceeds will be donated by Intiman Theatre to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which for 50 years has been a catalyst for racial justice and a xxxxxx against hate and extremism, in the South and beyond. You can learn more about Under Big Piney and reserve your tickets here. We hope to see you at the (virtual) theater tonight! Your friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center
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