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Set in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921, it tells the remarkable story of the community of Greenwood, an all-black suburb of Tulsa.
Here, the ex-slaves and the sons and daughters of the enslaved were able to create a successful and affluent community that was the envy of white Tulsa. It was prospering so much that the great African American Educator, Booker T Washington, was moved to declare it, “the Negro Wall Street of America, a veritable Monte Carlo.”
How could Africans/blacks be lawyers, bankers, doctors and surgeons who run their own theatres, grocery stores, churches and schools etc.
The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street."
Writer and director *Khareem Jamal*, has set the story to the backdrop of *jazz* and *Negro spirituals* with the original songs provided by the talents of *Lloyd Wade*
TOUR DATES
11th & 12th May
Beck Theatre, Hayes
24th & 25th May
Legacy Theatre, Birmingham
1st & 2nd June
Shaw Theatre, London
7th & 8th June
Nottingham Arts Centre, Nottingham
14th June
Broadway Theatre, Catford, London
21st & 22nd June
Y Theatre, Leicester
#blackwallstreet
#blackwallstreetstageplay #tulsaoklahoma #blackwallstreetthedreamland #blacktheatre
#blackdrama
#blackmusical
#becktheatre
#leicester
Here, the ex-slaves and the sons and daughters of the enslaved were able to create a successful and affluent community that was the envy of white Tulsa. It was prospering so much that the great African American Educator, Booker T Washington, was moved to declare it, “the Negro Wall Street of America, a veritable Monte Carlo.”
How could Africans/blacks be lawyers, bankers, doctors and surgeons who run their own theatres, grocery stores, churches and schools etc.
The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street."
Writer and director *Khareem Jamal*, has set the story to the backdrop of *jazz* and *Negro spirituals* with the original songs provided by the talents of *Lloyd Wade*
TOUR DATES
11th & 12th May
Beck Theatre, Hayes
24th & 25th May
Legacy Theatre, Birmingham
1st & 2nd June
Shaw Theatre, London
7th & 8th June
Nottingham Arts Centre, Nottingham
14th June
Broadway Theatre, Catford, London
21st & 22nd June
Y Theatre, Leicester
#blackwallstreet
#blackwallstreetstageplay #tulsaoklahoma #blackwallstreetthedreamland #blacktheatre
#blackdrama
#blackmusical
#becktheatre
#leicester
11-May-2024 - 19:30 Start date
12-May-2024 - 22:00 End date
Beck Theatre, Hayes