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<\/p>\nToday\u2019s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Erica Sutherlin, executive artistic director of The Studio@620, St. Petersburg\u2019s multi-purpose arts and entertainment venue.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s also the director of Cadillac Crew, a play by Tori Sampson that shines a spotlight on women activists during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early-to-mid \u201860s. It\u2019s a co-production with Tampa\u2019s Powerstories Theatre.<\/p>\n
Cadillac Crew (opening Thursday, Nov. 6) is about four Black women in Richmond, Virginia who go on the road, to small towns across America, spreading the gospel of the movement. Cadillac crews were real, although the characters and plot of Sampson\u2019s play are not.<\/p>\n
To maximize the intimacy of the story, the play will be presented in the round.<\/p>\n
That subtle blurring of stone hard facts and artistic license is the kind of thing Sutherlin-as-director is attracted to. It\u2019s a way of bringing in the bigger picture \u2013 in this case, the little-known lady-heroes of civil rights \u2013 to educate people. As well as entertain them.<\/p>\n
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The cast of \u201cCadillac Crew\u201d at The Studio@620. Photo: Chaz D.<\/p>\n
Cadillac Crew is preceded by The Unseen Thread: Women\u2019s Art As Movement, an exhibition of works by woman artists curated by Debbie Garrett and Freddie Hughes. It opened with a reception Thursday evening, and will stay up at The Studio@620 through Nov. 19.<\/p>\n
There are performances of Cadillac Crew Nov. 6-16 (find tickets and info here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Click on the arrow to listen to the conversation.<\/p>\n
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