On March 20th, New Stage Theatre presented an in-school performance of We Shall Not Be Moved: Courage in Mississippi at Callaway High School in Jackson as part of the New Stage Theatre Arts-in-Education statewide touring program. We Shall Not Be Moved: Courage in Mississippi was presented for 270 10th grade students at 10:00 AM.
We Shall Not Be Moved: Courage in Mississippi is a Mississippi coming of age story involving the courageous acts of the civil rights movement. Inspired by the 1968 memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South by Anne Moody and the 2014 novel We Shall Not be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired by M.J. O’Brien, We Shall Not Be Moved is a 60-minute play with music, featuring the events and people of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, Anne Moody, the 1963 Woolworth’s sit-in; the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, are some of the people and events included in the play.
Co-Directed by New Stage Theatre Artistic Director Francine Thomas Reynolds and Ashlyn Pinkerton, We Shall Not Be Moved: Courage in Mississippi is performed by New Stage’s Professional Associate Artist Company members Keith Allen Davis Jr, Cameron Vipperman, Tatiana Grace, Ashlyn Pinkerton and Jacob Heuer.
New Stage Theatre is Mississippi’s professional not-for-profit theatre. Winner of the 2019 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Theatre, the education program tours throughout Mississippi and has a strong reputation for presenting entertaining and educational shows that elevate students’ literary knowledge and problem solving skills. The New Stage Arts-in-Education touring program is sponsored by Entergy Mississippi, The Chisholm Foundation, and the National Endowment for The Arts.
For further information, contact Education Director Xerron X Mingo at (601) 948-3533 ext. 232 or xmingo@newstagetheatre.com.