Berta, Berta

The Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of Berta, Berta, a sensuous love story by Angelica Chéri that was inspired by a prison chain gang song from Parchman Farm. In 1920s Mississippi, Leroy has committed an unforgivable crime and is ready to accept his punishment: incarceration at notorious Parchman Farm. He has just one final wish before he’s caught—a chance to make amends with his long lost love, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.