"Ain't I A Woman" Chamber Music Theatre Production Is March 24

The Division of Arts and Letters is sponsoring the chamber music theatre production of “Ain’t I A Woman” at Limestone College’s Fullerton Auditorium on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m.

The event is open to the public and admission is free.

The professional touring performance of “Ain’t I A Woman” celebrates the lives and times of four significant African-American Women, including ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, folk artist Clementine Hunter, and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer.

Actress Christy Hall will be joined on stage by the ensemble of Ju Young Lee on cello, Bryan Sean at piano, and Michael Parola playing percussion. The performance will run approximately one hour and twenty minutes.

Hall is an Arkansas-born actress, singer and songwriter. She graduated with a degree in Drama from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Hall moved to New York City a year later, working as an actor and musician. She was recently seen in the Off-Broadway production of "Marie Christine" and is a regular in the Quarter Reading Series. Hall is also active in standup comedy.

The production is being brought to Limestone College by Core Ensemble, which has been recognized for the development of a new genre of chamber music theatre works as well as its long history of commissioning and performing contemporary chamber music. The ensemble’s programs now reach every region of the United States and have been heard in Russia, Ukraine, the Caribbean, England, and Australi

The text for “Ain’t I A Woman” was written by Kim Hines. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals of the Deep South, the urban exuberance of the Jazz Age and concert music by African-American composers including Diane Monroe.

Chamber music theatre is unique performance format featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to a chamber music performance.