TWO TRAINS RUNNING
DIRECTED BY DEBBIE HARRIS OF STAGE DOOR PRODUCTIONS
It’s the final weekend of Two Trains Running playing at Stage Door Productions at 810 Caroline Street - go see it while it’s here! The talented cast of Two Trains Running spent some time practicing here at Curitiba Art Café and we are happy to support their and our friend Debbie Harris’ efforts to bring this important story to the stage in Fredericksburg. Read more about it and how you can see it here!
“AT THE CROSSROADS OF REVOLUTION”
It’s 1969, and change is in the air. But for the owner of a threadbare diner in a dying Pittsburgh neighborhood, the civil rights movement may just be an impractical dream. Torn between whether to gamble on an urban-renewal buyout or sell his building to a predatory businessman, he finds himself caught between idealism and brutal reality. August Wilson’s searing portrait of African-American life in the ’60s tells a complex story of the inner lives of ordinary people at an explosive turning point in American history.
Memphis Lee's coffee shop lies in Pittsburgh's Hill District, a neighborhood on the brink of economic development. The restaurant serves as a hangout for a host of regulars: a local intellectual, an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322-year-old sage, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a laconic waitress who slashed her legs to keep men away, and a developmentally disabled man who was once cheated out of a ham. With Chekhovian obliqueness, the author reveals simple truths, hopes and dreams, creating a microcosm of an era and a community on the brink of change.
