Dunbar Repertory Company is excited to present Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting in the MAC’s Theater this October!
Written by Ed Schmidt
Directed by Mark Antonio Henderson
Show Dates:
Friday, Oct 15 at 8 PM
Saturday, Oct 16 at 3 PM and 8 PM
Sunday, Oct 17 at 4 PM
Tickets: $20
ABOUT THE SHOW
In this brilliant and timely play, Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey meet in 1947 to discuss a strategy for dropping a baseball bombshell: promoting a black player to the major leagues.
With Baseball’s Opening Day one week away, Branch Rickey will call up Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier and play as the Major League’s first black ballplayer. If he does, Robinson will face loud and heated opposition from virtually every owner, manager and player as the play becomes a powerful vehicle for analyzing issues of race and society that go beyond baseball. The production features actors Terrence Berry, Thomas Cox, Antonio M. Johnson, Arthur Gregory Pugh, Collin Roach and Joseph G. Taylor.
