Freedom Summer

Written by Toby Armour

Directed by Joan Kane

at Theater for the New City

June 8-25 2023

This latest play by Toby Armour takes its name from the volunteer campaign in June 1964, staffed primarily by northern college students, to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Police, white citizens’ councils and the KKK used arrests, arson, and worse to oppose the project. The play centers on two young women who are thrown together by chance as volunteers in the effort. Sylvie, white from up North, knows too little. Terry, African-American born and raised in Mississippi, perhaps knows too much.

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