ALABAMA STORY
By Kenneth Jones
Directed by Rick Dildine
March 5 – March 22, 2020
Octagon Stage | 2 hours, plus intermission
Recommended ages 12+
It’s 1959, and the Civil Rights Movement is starting to grip America. In Montgomery, Alabama, a gentle children’s book stirs the passions of a segregationist senator and a no-nonsense librarian. A contrasting story of childhood friends — an African-American man and a woman of white privilege who are reunited in Montgomery that same year — provides private counterpoint to the public events of the play. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty children’s author inhabit the same page to conjure a Deep South of the imagination.
“At a time when intolerance is on the upswing and empathy is under siege, Alabama Story is just the play we need.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ARTISTIC TEAM
![Christopher Gerson*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CG-for-web-1.jpg)
Christopher Gerson*
Senator Higgins
![Billy Hutto*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BH-for-web.jpg)
Billy Hutto*
Thomas Franklin
![Alan Knoll*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AK-for-web.jpg)
Alan Knoll*
Garth Williams
![Greta Lambert*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GL-for-web-1.jpg)
Greta Lambert*
Emily Wheelock Reed
![Madeleine Lambert*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Mad-for-web-2.jpg)
Madeleine Lambert*
Lily Whitfield
![Terrell Donnell Sledge*](https://asf.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TDS-for-web.jpg)
Terrell Donnell Sledge*
Joshua Moore
Director – Rick Dildine^
Stage Manager – Katie An Siegel*
Production Assistant – Brendan Woods
Scenic/Lighting Designer – Brian Sidney Bembridge**
Costume Designer – Kathleen Geldard**
Sound Designer – Melanie Chen Cole**
Wig Master/Supervisor – Angie Wright
*The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
**United Scenic Artists, the Representative Voice of Designers and Scenic Artists
^Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Presenting Sponsor
Alabama Tourism Department
Sponsors
Jere and Sara Beasley