New Works Festival - One Act Plays

Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 at 2:00pm

Firehouse Center For The Arts
1 Market Square
$15

The Firehouse Center for the Arts presents… New Works Festival 2025 - One Act Plays

Extreme Gridlock

Written by James Ferguson

Directed by Mark Scalia 

"A couple struggles to understand why they’re stuck."

Meridian Summer

Written by Candace Perry

Directed by Netta Neely

Summertime, and the livin' ain't so easy in Mississippi in 1964.  Freedom Summer workers struggle to register Blacks to vote, while on the country club side of town members of the White Citizens Council battle to preserve their "way of life." The dramatic events that put Meridian on the nightly news are played out in MERIDIAN SUMMER, a work of fiction based on historical events of the time sixty-one years ago, known as “Freedom Summer“.

General Admission - $15

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