The Ebony Road Players are once again producing a series of events to commemorate Loving Day with a Saturday community family picnic/dance and then on Sunday at Wealthy Theatre the play "Neither There, Nor Here."
This annual observation is held to commemorate the victorious Loving vs. Virginia Supreme Court case of 1967 in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down state laws that sought to ban interracial marriages.
At Rosa Parks Circle on Saturday, attendees of the
Loving Day Community Family Picnic and Dance will enjoy food merchants, local vendors, and musical acts to encourage folks to mix and mingle at this celebratory event. The organizers even invite you to dance as a community to the music provided throughout the early evening.
At this family-friendly affair, you will have a chance to participate in a dance lesson, hula-hooping, sidewalk chalk drawing, and even temporary hand-painted designs for your face.
On Sunday “
Neither There, Nor Here”—an original, multimedia, interdisciplinary memory play-meets-cooking show—will take to the Wealthy Theatre stage.
The play focuses on the experience of people with liminal identities of race, gender, culture, and sexuality who live between so-called traditional binaries in order to create their own cultures that move beyond more typical either/or identities—all through the lens of a live televised cooking show.
As the performers tell their stories, family photos will be projected onto the set, allowing each story to spill into other more theatrical modes, from table-top theater, to strange dances, to a pop song sing-along. This is sure to be a lively, fun, and insightful night of theatre.