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Six Nights in the Black Belt

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Six Nights in the Black Belt

About the Show

Yellow Taxi Productions, Nashua’s only professional theatre company will present the world premiere of Six Nights in the Black Belt. This play explores the life of Keene, NH native, Episcopalian Junior Priest and Civil Rights martyr Jonathan Daniels.

Yellow Taxi Productions’ mission is to develop new plays and playwrights. Six Nights in the Black Belt is written by Nashua writer and Yellow Taxi’s Playwright-in-Residence Lowell Williams. Williams won the 2006 Best Original Professional Production award at the NH Theatre Awards for his last full-length play The Warmth of the Cold. This new script concerns the six nights that Jonathan Daniels spent in an Alabama jail in 1965 during the Selma marches. It explores his reasons for wanting to help with the voter registration movement and his friendship with Stokley Carmichael.

Six Nights in the Black Belt is sponsored by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Tenth Anniversary Committee of Rivier Institute for Senior Education (RISE). In addition, to the play, Yellow Taxi Productions will present the one-hour documentary film about Jonathan Daniels entitled “Here Am I, Send Me: The Journey of Jonathan Daniels” on Sunday, May 6th at 4:30pm. There will be a post film discussion led by the filmmaker and Keene State College Professor Larry Benaquist. This event is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and is free and open to the public.

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