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Name:
Williams Center for the Arts
Phone:
610-330-5009
Email:
williamscenter@lafayette.edu
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When:
Saturday, February 28, 2026 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts Mainstage
Presenter:
The Performance Series @ Williams Center for the Arts
Price:
$33 Public, $10 Laf Fac/Staff, Free Laf Students, $6 Other Students
The World Premiere of a new play by Judy Tate
Directed by Kim Sykes
Co-produced by Richard Koplin ’64 and Russel Arden Koplin
In 1841 New Orleans, a wealthy landowner, John McDonogh, sent two enslaved young men, David and Washington, to Lafayette College. A member of the Colonization Society, McDonogh’s plan was to educate “his Black family” and then send them back to Africa, where they would become missionaries. Washington left for Liberia in 1843. David had other plans.
Sponsored by:
This performance is supported in part by the Lafayette College Bicentennial Academic Fund