When They Shall Die

Join us in-person in the 4th Floor Dining Hall for a special presentation of a new play from Dr. JoAnne Marie Terrell: When They Shall Die: A Multimedia Play in Three Acts. This play combines history, fantasy, and speculation about the interior lives of the chief protagonists, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President John F. Kennedy. While the action of the play develops mostly linearly, the elegiac and celebratory music is performed mostly in dream sequence. The original Dais of the March On Washington, and the Dream, Reimagined, acknowledge both the contextual boundaries of the civil rights struggles in the US and the universal impetus in MLK’s dream, in order to shine light on the expansive obligation of those who live now and are called to be witnesses to possibility.