Southeast Alabama Community Theatre invites the Wiregrass community back to Alabama, 1959, when a growing movement for civil rights met with resistance to the groundwork for the more dramatic protests and events that would follow in the early 1960s, including the Birmingham campaign and the Selma marches.
Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story is a play inspired by true events! A controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian. The author presents a fictional contrasting story of childhood friends—an African American man and a white woman of privilege, reunited in adulthood—providing private counterpoint to the public events swirling in the state capital. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty children’s author inhabit the same page in a Deep South of the imagination that brims with humor, heartbreak, and hope.
Alabama Story performs Apr. 24-25 at 7:00 PM nightly, and there is a matinee on Saturday, Apr. 26, at 2:00 PM, at the Cultural Arts Center, located at 909 S. Saint Andrews Street in Dothan. Tickets are available for purchase at SEACT.com for $25 each. The in-person box office opens 60 minutes before curtain, with a cash bar available on Thursday and Friday. Seating begins 30 minutes before curtain.
