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The Joy That Carries You at Olney Theatre Center

Dates: (5/11/2022 - 6/12/2022 )

Theatre:

Olney Theatre Center

Olney Theatre Center

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832
Olney,MD 20832

Phone: (301) 924-3400

Tickets: $54.00 - $79.00

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A drama about an interracial couple in crisis by local playwriting team Awa Sal Secka and Dani Stoller (Signature's Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes) that melds sharp comic dialogue and moving spoken-word poetry. This new play about love and family, privilege and responsibility, introduces us to Shiri and Alaia, navigating their first year together as a couple. Over the course of a few days, their relationship is tested by events that underline the radically different ways each of them, one Black, one Jewish, experiences the world. Strikingly personal in its intimacies, this World Premiere is a poetic reckoning with love and the pain woven through it.
Ages: If this were a movie it would be rated R for explicit language

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