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A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING ORIGINAL. A TRIUMPHANT ADAPTATION OF JOPLIN'S GROUNDBREAKING OPERA, REIMAGINED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
The Story
It is the late 1880s in the Deep South. A people are divided against themselves. A group of upwardly mobile Freedmen are now running a plantation near Texarkana. They are striving to become an essential part of an emerging new America.
In the surrounding forest, a group of Maroons are rebuilding a nearly lost connection to their African ancestry. They do not value a country that has so recently seen them as nothing but property.
Their coexistence is fragile but functional, until it is shattered by an act of violence. Into this conflict comes a young woman who discovers she has roots in both communities. At this crucial moment in history her choices will determine the future.
Her name is Treemonisha.
Queen Hezumuryango
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