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From the Porch: Playhouse on Park’s New Play Reading

July 12, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

From the Playwrights on Park Play Reading Series: ALTHEA & ANGELA by Todd Olson Sunday, July 12th (Rain Date: Monday, July 13th) 6:30pm (Gates Open at 6pm) $25 Join us for a Play Reading of this new work. Directed by Sean Harris. Includes a post show talk back with the director and the cast. In 1955 Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton were world-ranked tennis players… yet no one wanted to partner with them in women’s doubles. In fact, few even wanted to talk with them. Post-War America was still very segregated and the tennis world was still very anti-Semitic. Eight years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line in major league baseball, the tennis world lagged behind, clinging to its country club roots. Althea, a black woman from Harlem, and Angela, a Jewish woman from Liverpool, were outcasts in two nations. So they decided to join forces outside their own country – and what happened then made history. ALTHEA & ANGELA tells the story of their meeting at an exhibition game in New Delhi, pairing up, and winning the French Open and Wimbledon the first Grand Slam events that any African-American – male or female – had ever accomplished. It also tells the story of the unlikely events that occurred 40 years later, when one fell upon destitute times…and the other saved her life by a mass appeal to the tennis world. Bring your own beverages, food, chairs/blankets & masks. Masks must be worn unless you are in your pod. Tickets will not be sold at the door. You will not need a physical ticket, your name and the size of your party will be on a list at the gate. Purchase tickets through Playhouse on Park online at www.playhouseonpark.org, over the phone at 860-523-5900 x10, or in person at the box office Mon-Fri 10am-2pm (244 Park Rd. West Hartford, CT 06119).

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