LOS ANGELES, CA, January 21, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- All the Way West Productions, Inc presents the stage play "Southern Girls" opening Thursday January 22, 2009 at The Complex inside the Ruby Theater located at 6476 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90038 starting at 8pm.
Southern Girls shadows the experience of six childhood friends from the 1950s to their middle ages set in a small town outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Biracial dreamer Wanda-Sue, teeters between the world of her white half-sister, Charlotte, her white friends, Dolly and June-Adele, and her black friends, sisters Ruth and Naomi. As children the girls play together but as the years pass by their world changes when each woman's dreams are strongly influenced and affected by the turbulent times in which they live.
"Southern Girls is so far ranging because the play is about so many things says Director Dan Martin. On the surface, it's about 6 very different women, who all originate in the same time and place, and about their various reactions to the times in which they find themselves. But in addition to these women, it's also about their times, it's about the effect the time and place has on them. It's about family and family ties. It's about individual choices. It's about America, and it's about that peculiar region of America called the South with its peculiar social institutions, and the changes it has gone and continues to go though. "
Written by playwrights Sheri Bailey & Dura Temple and directed by NAACP Image Award Nominee Dan Martin., Southern Girls brings together a diverse cast starring Danye E. Brown, Rebecca Royale, Megan Blakeley, Kathryn Scott, Shaun Adams and Jessica Webb. "I've enjoyed hanging out with these Southern Girls, the actresses and the characters. I've learned a bit, and I suspect you will too", says Martin.
Southern Girls runs nightly each Thursday, Friday, Saturday evening with matinees on Sundays until March 1, 2009. General admission is $20.00 for all performances. Group rates and student discounts are also available. To reserve tickets, please call (323) 960-7822 or purchase tickets online: http://www.plays411.net. Valet & convenient street parking is available.
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ABOUT SHERI BAILEY
Sheri Bailey moved to California to attend UCLA's graduate playwriting program. Her Summers in Suffolk were work shopped at the 1990 Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival, and she received a 1993 Individual Theatre Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her other plays include All Kinds of Blue, Dannie 'n Laurence, Murder and Mayhem at the Red River Bar and Walking with a Panther. Her screen adaptation of the award-winning All Kinds of Blue has been optioned by Jasmine Guy's Black 'n White Productions, and the romantic comedy Dannie 'n Laurence was optioned by Halle Berry. Summers in Suffolk had its world premiere in Los Angeles in June 1996. Her newest play, a commissioned adaptation of Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novella, Passing, premiered at the Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles, in September 1996. Bailey lives in Norfolk, Va., with her daughter, Peyton, and their dog, Max.
ABOUT DURA TEMPLE
Award-winning playwright and lecturer, Dura Temple has had her work performed in universities, theaters and festivals throughout the country. An M.F.A. graduate of UCLA's school of Theatre and Film, she is a member of the Women Playwrights Unit at LATC (Los Angeles Theatre Center), the Zeitgeist Repertory Theatre and a founding member of the Playwrights Theatre- a Los Angeles company of professional playwrights affiliated with the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York. Her produced plays include Trails (Best Original Play Southwest Division, American College Theater national winner); God's Blind Eye (21st Street Theatre of Los Angeles' Best Original Play Award); Dream Lovers and Southern Girls (produced throughout the country). Temple is a member of The Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, West and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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