Date: March 14, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
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TheaterLoft
545 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222

Phone: 716-883-0380
Email: ujimacoinc@mac.com

BELLE
by Florence Gibsondirected by Lorna C. Hill

 

March 5-28

 

A reconstruction of the Reconstruction Era of the United States
1865-1870

Belle is the extraordinary story of two recently freed slaves, husband and wife, journeying to the north in search of a new life. When they encounter a white woman fighting for the suffrage movement, they become entwined in the social upheaval that epitomizes post Civil War America.

Belle is one woman’s story but it expresses the circumstances of a nation in the midst of social evolution. We see how black women were overlooked in the suffrage movement, used as pawns in the social and political upheaval of the post Civil War era and generally vulnerable in the midst of well-intentioned and misguided individuals seeking social justice. Belle is in search and need of what was most illusive at the time: love, family and self-determination.

“ Belle is a massive achievement. Florence Gibson has written boldly and bravely; She writes with poetry, she writes with imagery. (A) beautiful very important piece of theatre. Florence Gibson is a writer we ought to cherish.”

--Richard Quzounian, CBC Radio

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