Sankofa Theatre Festival - The Past is the Past and Sarah and Sally

The Sankofa Theatre Festival is an annual one week African American theatrical festival of one-acts.

By MMB Theatre 1 Project
Directed by Curtis K. Rivers, Artistic Director

Bringing Life to the Stage.

(Two One-Act Plays) The Past is the Past by Richard Wesley/Sarah and Sally by Vickie Hampton:

The Past is the Past by Richard Wesley

The scene is a pool hall, where Earl Davis (David Shakes), a man in his mid-forties, plays a solitary game. He is joined by Eddie Green (Anderson Allen), a young college student, who watches the older man in silence, and then challenges him to a game. Their conversation, casual at first, soon makes it clear that these two men, who have never met before, do, in fact recognize each other; are, in truth, father and son. In the end this truth is conceded—but so is the fact that the years of neglect that separate them are too great a gulf to be bridged, and the past must, indeed, remain the past.

Sarah and Sally by Vickie Hampton

Set in Paris in the early 19th century, Sarah "Hottentot Venus" Baartman (Kat Rina Davis) is visited in her dressing room while on tour by a young Sally Hemings (Arianna D’Arienzo) who is traveling with her enslaver, Thomas Jefferson. The two women spend time together exploring issues of freedom, exploitation, spirituality and dare to dream of possibilities for their future lives. After a quick turn of events in both of their lives the future they once imagined becomes tragically uncertain.

Ticket Prices:

Tickets start at $10 early bird through August 1
All Week Pass $49.98
Advance $17
Matinee/staged readings are $5 and at the door $25.

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