CHS’s Parnassians Produce Alabama Story Nov 17-19

The award-winning Parnassian Society will perform Kenneth Jones’ play, Alabama Story, beginning on Thursday, November 16 at 8 p.m. and continuing on November 17, 18 at 8 p.m. and November 19 at 2 p.m.

Alabama Story is based on real life events set in 1959, when segregationist Senator E.W. Higgins wants a controversial children’s picture book — about a white rabbit who marries a black rabbit — purged from the state library because he feels it promotes inter-racial marriage. But (real life) state librarian, Emily Wheelock Reed refuses, putting both of their worlds at risk in a time of extraordinary social change. While Reed spars with Higgins, a parallel story of childhood friends reunited in adulthood reflects the political and personal tensions swirling in Montgomery, a city known as both the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Cradle of Civil Rights. Famed illustrator Garth Williams (Little House on the Prairie, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little) is conjured as narrator and participant in the fact-inspired, highly theatrical drama about tests of character in “the Deep South of the Imagination.”

Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling 973-713-6866.