A New Play about "Natural Disaster." Free and Open to the Public.
A professional staged-reading of a new play, by Rick Mitchell, directed by Hope Alexander, music by Max Kinberg. Through the Roof chronicles the adventures of two people who meet on a rooftop in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans while escaping rising floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina. The pair inadvertently travel back in history, to New Orleans and California, and discover that race, gender, and natural catastrophe are never far removed. The play is based, in part, on recent interviews with disaster survivors (especially of Katrina), as well as New Orleans and California history. Produced by Cal State Northridge
Part of the California Council for the Humanities California Stories grant (www.calhum.org) entitled: ?Natural Disaster: California, New Orleans, the World.?
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