Here's how Arena bills the play: "In the backwater town of Boligee, Alabama, the summer heat is rising higher, driving the townsfolk to distraction and conjuring the spirits of the past to walk the earth. Wrapped in the combustible music of a Deep South juke joint and the sweat-soaked gospel of a revivalist church tent, intergenerational stories of loss and redemption collide. Gardley blends ancient myth with magical realism, Biblical allegory with the local TV news to create a fiery theatrical furnace in which some will be saved, some will be purged and the truth cannot escape."
Here's a look at the production:
Kenny Leon directs an ensemble cast that, in addition to Rashad, Kritzer and Hurlbert, includes Jason Dirden, Crystal Fox, Jim Ireland, Eugene Lee, E. Roger Mitchell and Jonathan Earl Peck.
