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Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, associate professor of theatre at Miami University, is participating in a panel discussion at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis of "Down in Mississippi," a new play by Carlyle Brown commissioned by Miami University's department of theatre and Center for American and World Cultures.
The discussion will follow a reading of the play at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in the Dowling Studio of the Guthrie Theatre.
A gospel play with music, "Down in Mississippi" explores events of Freedom Summer 1964, when college students trained at the Western College for Women in Oxford before leaving to register Negro voters in Mississippi. In the play, the students find that they have to change themselves in order to change the world.
Western College became part of the Miami campus in 1974.
"Down in Mississippi" will be directed by Armstrong at Miami in October 2009 as part of Miami's bicentennial celebration.
A Minneapolis-based writer and performer, Brown is the artistic director of Carlyle Brown & Company. He has received numerous commissions including those from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Houston Grand Opera and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous honors and awards.
Panel participants at the Jan. 19 reading in addition to Brown and Armstrong include Polly Carl, Playwrights' Center producing artistic director; director Noel Raymond and dramaturg Elissa Adams.
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