Written and Directed by Pam C. Dudley
Performance Dates
Evening Shows: Feb 21, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30pm
Matinee Show: Feb 26 @ 2:30pm
Evening Shows: Feb 21, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30pm
Matinee Show: Feb 26 @ 2:30pm
* Opening night reception for playwright and director Pam C. Dudley co-sponsored by Susan Hale, City Councilwoman Precinct 1 and the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency
* Show conversation with Pam C. Dudley directly following the Sunday matinee performance.
* Show conversation with Pam C. Dudley directly following the Sunday matinee performance.
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ABOUT BREAKFAST
Breakfast is an award-winning intergenerational historical drama, set in Corsicana, Texas on the first day of school integration in 1970. With 17-year old Cora at the center, a series of interconnected, two person, one-act plays serve up the grits and grit of this small town coming of age story. Inspired by events in rural Texas towns.
When asked what inspired Dudley to write Breakfast, she said: “I’ve been fascinated by backstory my whole life. As a child, I sat in the mall and created stories around the shoppers walking by. I weaved tales of where they’d come from, what they were saying to each other, and where they were going.
As a therapist, I learned the value of knowing someone’s story to help explain why they think and act the way they do. I have studied stories of integration in rural Texas for the last nine years. I have spent hundreds of hours talking to my family, their classmates, and Corsicana residents. It has helped me understand why people fight when they fight and why they chose not to fight.
When I meet people who hurt others or hurt themselves, I always wonder, what happened to you? I asked that same question when I arrived in Corsicana and learned that the town refused to integrate for many years. Several Corsicana residents shared their stories about their experience on the first day of integrated school. I was fascinated to learn that some white students were assigned to go to the school that was previously all black.
With Corsicana being a small town, I began to see so many story connections. Though each person’s story was unique, it seemed to be a link on a longer chain. I wrote Breakfast as a series of interlocking links on a chain. The nine individual two-person short plays can stand alone as 10-minute plays, or be presented together to tell the complete interlinking story.”
Corsicana integrated in 1970. Many of those students and teachers are no longer living to tell the story. Breakfast is not anyone’s story in particular. It is a fictional story inspired by the courage and pain of those who lived it. I wrote Breakfast in hopes that it would help others to look in the mirror, as it did me.”
Breakfast is an award-winning intergenerational historical drama, set in Corsicana, Texas on the first day of school integration in 1970. With 17-year old Cora at the center, a series of interconnected, two person, one-act plays serve up the grits and grit of this small town coming of age story. Inspired by events in rural Texas towns.
When asked what inspired Dudley to write Breakfast, she said: “I’ve been fascinated by backstory my whole life. As a child, I sat in the mall and created stories around the shoppers walking by. I weaved tales of where they’d come from, what they were saying to each other, and where they were going.
As a therapist, I learned the value of knowing someone’s story to help explain why they think and act the way they do. I have studied stories of integration in rural Texas for the last nine years. I have spent hundreds of hours talking to my family, their classmates, and Corsicana residents. It has helped me understand why people fight when they fight and why they chose not to fight.
When I meet people who hurt others or hurt themselves, I always wonder, what happened to you? I asked that same question when I arrived in Corsicana and learned that the town refused to integrate for many years. Several Corsicana residents shared their stories about their experience on the first day of integrated school. I was fascinated to learn that some white students were assigned to go to the school that was previously all black.
With Corsicana being a small town, I began to see so many story connections. Though each person’s story was unique, it seemed to be a link on a longer chain. I wrote Breakfast as a series of interlocking links on a chain. The nine individual two-person short plays can stand alone as 10-minute plays, or be presented together to tell the complete interlinking story.”
Corsicana integrated in 1970. Many of those students and teachers are no longer living to tell the story. Breakfast is not anyone’s story in particular. It is a fictional story inspired by the courage and pain of those who lived it. I wrote Breakfast in hopes that it would help others to look in the mirror, as it did me.”
OUR CAST
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CORA WATSON - Jatavia James
"DADDY" WALTER WATSON - Reggie Lockhart MOMMA/RUBY WATSON - Petrina Johnson "JUNIOR" WALTER WATSON, JR. - Joshaun Mathis SUZIE HARPER - Amy Pesnell-Gonzalez BILL HARPER - Mark Bedgood |
REV. ELIJAH TUCKER - "CB" Courtavious Bryant
BOBBY HATTIE - Dylan Dickerson JAKE HATTIE - Ethan Herrin MS. JULIA HATTIE - Debbie Bigler CEDRICK TUCKER - Klinton Wright |
This developmental performance is produced by special arrangement with Pam C. Dudley and My Write Mind, PLLC.
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