Pyramid Theatre Company: Too Heavy For Your Pocket

When:
June 7, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
2019-06-07T19:30:00-05:00
2019-06-07T19:45:00-05:00
Where:
Stoner Theater - Civic Center
221 Walnut St
Des Moines, IA 50309
USA
Contact:
Des Moines Performing Arts
(515) 246-2300
From the mind of Pyramid Theatre Company’s Founding Artistic Director Member and rising national playwright Jireh Breon Holder comes Too Heavy For Your Pocket. In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders are embarking on a courageous journey into the Deep South. When twenty-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones—and himself—that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own. The interactive direction from Producing Artistic Director Tiffany Johnson brings audiences right into the thick of the Civil Rights movement and provides lens to the Black experience in times injustice.

Please note: only children age 5 and over with tickets will be allowed into the theater for this production.