Purlie

Picture it. Early 1900’s. The Ol’ South. More specifically, a modest Georgia town owned and run, with an iron hand, by a cold-hearted plantation owner and former slaveholder set on demolishing a church that is the crown jewel and the very heart of its community. Enter Purlie Victorious. What’s a dynamic young man fed up with the oppression of his fellow townspeople to do? The award-winning musical Purlie is based on the late theatre and film legend Ossie Davis’s watershed play, Purlie Victorious.