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Delana Flowers in Sojourner Being cast as a historical figure is one thing, but getting approval from the figure s descendents adds a whole other level. This is what happened when Delana Flowers took on the role of Sojourner Truth for Sojourner, a new production at Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre. Set in 1851, the one-woman show, written by Richard LaMonte Pierce, stars Flowers as the abolitionist preparing to give her most famous speech at a women s rights conference in Akron, Ohio. “While I am waiting to go out and speak, a Black journalist comes in and wants to do a short greeting,” says Flowers, a local performer, writer, and teaching assistant. “The play is me talking to this journalist and recalling different things in my life.” ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Prime Stage Theatre will return to its roots with a livestream performance of “Sojourner,” with Delana Flowers portraying the 19th-century women’s suffrage and abolition activist in a Black History Month production. The theater group’s inaugural production 25 years ago was another play about Sojourner Truth. ”Sojourner” is by Richard LaMonte Pierce, a playwright and published author whose work expounds on the Black and American experience, according to Prime Stage. Pierce is a founding member and playwright in residence at First World Theatre in Philadelphia. ....
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