A Reading of James Baldwin's THE AMEN CORNER

Charter Oak Cultural Center in collaboration with Immanuel Congregational presents a staged reading of James Baldwin's drama THE AMEN CORNER directed by taneisha duggan.

For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. 

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

Presented in collaboration with Immanuel Congregational Church. No one turned away for lack of funds.