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    Warriors Don't Cry

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    Presented by Tennessee Women's Theater Project at Scarritt-Bennett Center

    September 22, 2009

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    Warriors Don’t Cry, adapted from the best-selling memoir of Melba Pattillo Beals, is a searing account of her junior year at Little Rock’s Central High. As one of nine African American students chosen in 1957 to integrate the 2,000-student Central, Melba endured a year punctuated by telephone threats, shouting mobs, military escorts, rogue police, firebomb and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and finally, a price on her own head. With the help of her English-teacher mother, her fellow warriors of the Little Rock Nine, and her gun-toting, Shakespeare-quoting grandmother, Melba survived. Pulitzer-nominated playwright Eisa Davis originally adapted Warriors Don't Cry for Cornerstone Theatre, Los Angeles.

    Directed by Maryanna Clarke, Warriors Don’t Cry stars Vilia Steele.

    Please note: This special performance will take place in the Harambee Auditorium at Scarritt-Bennett Center.


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        Scarritt-Bennett Center

        1008 19th Avenue South
        Nashville, TN 37212

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        Tickets: Tickets available at the door only.

        Info Phone: (615) 340-7551

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        Dates:
        September 22, 2009

        Times:
        Tuesday 7:00pm

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