The Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing, a
controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit
stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State
Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama. Meanwhile, the story of two childhood
friends — an African American man and a woman of white privilege, reunited in
adulthood — provides a private counterpoint to the public events swirling in
the state capital. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty
children’s author inhabit the same page in a Deep South of the imagination that
brims with humor, heartbreak and hope. Inspired by true events.
Estimated
run time: 2 hours, including one 15 minute intermission