Product Code: F93000
Full-length Play
Recommended For:
High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 7m., 3w. (Male characters can be 7 to 9. Doubling possible.)
Approx. Run Time: 135 min.
The Face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Miss., in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a local white woman. The ramifications of this act are still being felt today. As retold for the first time within a creative, nonfictional genre by Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and Mamie’s heroic crusade for justice.
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