Royal Shiree Debuts One-Act Play
As part of Amherst Glebe Arts Response to the
National Endowment for the Arts’ BIG READ, actress and playwright Royal Shiree
will premiere Hurston and Spencer: A Poetic Tale
of Two Renaissance Women. Royal’s one-act play focuses of the lives, works,
and relationship of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer and novelist and
anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, whose masterwork, Their Eyes Were
Watching God is the subject of THE BIG READ. Royal will perform all
roles on the garden stage of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum on the
afternoon of September 27, the museum's fall open house.
Royal will also emcee the Zora Neale Hurston at the Third Annual Pierce Street Harlem Renaissance
Festival parade and stage events on Sunday September
14. http://www.amherstglebeartsresponse.org/the-big-read.html
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