![]() ![]() Throughout the play, a dozen bluegrass songs and hymns related to what we had just seen. It featured an evocative set that included a four-piece bluegrass band, attractively placed in a sort of balcony. Sundown Town was more impressively mounted. ![]() Built into the script were three selling points from a real ad for Siloam Springs, Arkansas: "No Malaria, No Mosquitoes, and No Negroes."īoth productions were well acted. Set before World War II, its location is "Healing Springs, Arkansas," whose sundown town sign graced the left side of the stage. TheatreSquared advertized Cohea's play as a world premiere, although a version was performed earlier at a theater lab in Arkansas. In the play, the male lead refers to the sign as set at the edge of a town in Alabama. According to the playwright, who died in 2001, the title came from a sign he saw in Mississippi. Redwood's play is set in Halifax, North Carolina, in 1949. ![]() Sundown Town, by Kevin Cohea, showed at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, near Wal-Mart headquarters. No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, by John Henry Redwood III, opened at Port City Playhouse at The Lab at Convergence in Alexandria, near Washington, D.C. The history of sundown towns-communities that for decades were "all white" on purpose-figures prominently in plays that opened this past month in two Southern states, Virginia and Arkansas. ![]()
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