Buzz on Swimming Upstream Coming to Atlanta – Kerry Washington, Jasmine Guy, Phylicia Rashad

Swimming Upstream

A project incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and V-Day with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues.

Featuring Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and the women of New Orleans
Directed by Kenny Leon
Music direction by JMichael

November 5 – 16, 2008
14th Street Playhouse

A Special Engagement

Experience New Orleans before, during and after the nation’s worst natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, through the stories of women who lived to tell about it. An affirmation of their own strength through raw, lyrical, soulful stories of how they lived through the flood with grace, rage and great resiliency punctuated by a flair for story telling, humor and music that comes from being New Orleanian.

Tickets: $35-$50
Student, senior and group discounts available.

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