Midtown Direct Rep – staged reading of TORN ASUNDER by Nikkole Salter

Midtown Direct Rep (MDR) continues its 2016-17 staged reading series, Theater at The Woodland, with a presentation of TORN ASUNDER by Nikkole Salter, directed by Janeece Freeman Clark. This staged reading will be performed for one night only on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 7pm in the Parlor at The Woodland (60 Woodland Rd. Maplewood, NJ), where MDR is the resident theater company. The reading is $15(in advance), $20(at the door) and open to the public. Student/Senior discounts are available.

The cast will include MDR members Lucas Calhoun (Broadway/West End: The Elephant Man), Dwayne Clark (Broadway: current cast of The Color Purple, Spider-Man, In the Heights, Cry Baby, Tarzan),
David Hess (Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Annie Get Your Gun). MDR will also welcome guests artists Chris Flowers, Sierra Hunter, Nikaya Mathis, and Doreen Oliver). E Sara Barnes will be the stage manager.

About TORN ASUNDER
Prince George’s County, MD, 1860. Hannah, a relatively contented enslaved woman, has her world rocked when her master dies and she, for the first time, is separated from her family, new husband, and baby. But, just as she begins to lose all hope to ever see her husband and child again, the suceded south falls to the Union, the enslaved are freed with the 13th Amendment, and Hannah has the opportunity to put her family back together…if she can find them. TORN ASUNDER dramatizes true stories of newly emancipated African Americans trying to overcome the ever-present vestiges of instiutional slavery to reconnect with their families. Based on the research of Prof. Heather Andrea Williams. (Commissioned by Prof. Heather Andrea Williams and Prof. Kathy Perkins of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)