ADAM KRAAR

FREEDOM HIGH will have a reading as part of MultiStages‘ New Works Finalist Reading Festival on October 10th at 7 PM at the Dramatists Guild, 1501 Broadway, 7th floor.  Admission is free.

The cast includes Rosalyn Coleman, Dion Graham, Leland Gantt, and Franny Silverman.   Gregory Simmons directs.

Inspired by actual events, FREEDOM HIGH takes place in June 1964, when black Civil Rights workers trained hundreds of white volunteers to work in Mississippi registering blacks to vote. Jessica, a young white volunteer, has no idea has no idea how dangerous – both physically and emotionally – the project will be. Instead, she throws herself into learning non-violent tactics and stubbornly trying to befriend an angry, wounded veteran of the Movement.

When three Civil Rights workers who’d been at the training the previous week disappear, the volunteers are forced to decide if they can risk their lives for a mission that seems doomed. Jessica discovers the deep – sometimes dark – complexity of her motivations, and those of everyone else involved.