“Sounds of the Cigar Factory” Going to Piccolo Spoleto

Photo by Susan Millar Williams

by Susan Millar Williams

“Sounds of the Cigar Factory,” which premiered as part of Eastside Day 2015 at the Palmer Campus and which stars many of our students, faculty, and staff, will be presented as part of Piccolo Spoleto at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 29, at the Footlights Players Theatre, 20 Queen Street. Tickets go on sale Monday, May 2, through the Piccolo Spoleto Website piccolospoleto.com and at the box office.

“Sounds of the Cigar Factory is a staged reading that dramatizes selections from Michele Moore’s recently published novel The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston.  Michele spent countless hours at Palmer last fall casting, rehearsing, and directing the performance, becoming a kind of honorary “Palmeranian” and writer-in-residence. The results are stunning, bringing to life in images, speech, and song the story of black and white factory workers in Charleston who originated the international civil rights anthem of protest and promise, "We Shall Overcome."    

Cast members Ronald Daise and Cecelia Fields performed on Sunday, May1 at Kiawah Island for a standing-room-only Piccolo Preview on Kiawah Island that drew almost 500 people.

Tickets will no doubt sell out quickly, so make sure to order yours early.