Too Heavy For Your Pocket at Sacred Fools Theater

Too Heavy For Your Pocket

Sacred Fools Theater
1076 Lillian Way Los Angeles

In rural Tennessee, 1961, protesting is a privilege with unintended consequences. In rural Tennessee at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, two young African-American couples struggle to understand justice, love, and their own responsibilities. TOO HEAVY FOR YOUR POCKET beautifully explores the sacrifices and tolls in the fight for freedom and equality that are placed, not only on the fighters, but the people they love. The play had its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta before moving to the Roundabout Theater in New York and won the 2017 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.

Thru - Mar 2, 2019

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 7:00pm

Price: $15

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 310-281-8337

www.sacredfools.org/mainstage/19/tooheavyforyourpocket/

Too Heavy For Your Pocket Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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Broadway World - Recommended

"...TOO HEAVY FOR MY POCKET beautifully explores the sacrifices and tolls in the fight for freedom and equality that are placed, not only on the fighters, but the people they love as each one struggles to understand justice, love, and their own responsibilities."

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- Shari Barrett

Gia on the Move - Highly Recommended

"...Michael A. Shepperd's direction is inspired, using the small space to create not only multiple locations but character connections from disparate locations - a phone conversation between Bowzie and Evelyn takes what could easily be a static sequence and transforms it into a choreographed piece about a strained relationship. The music and vocal performance (also perfectly executed by the cast) is skin-tinglingly good."

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- Matt Ritchey

Night Tinted Glasses - Recommended

"...Four people. Two men. Two women. In rural Tennessee sometime in the 1960s, when the Freedom Riders stood up and walked and traveled to demand the justice which American law promised yet so very rarely delivered. Bozie (Derek Jackson) is a very bright young man, married to the fierce and passionate Evelyn (Jaquita Ta'le). Their best friends, whose kitchen we see, are Tony (Shane Liburd) and his wife Sally (Kacie Rogers). In many ways their story is that of any four people with individual issues, past mistakes and future ones, with shared hopes as well as fears, plus unshared ones that lead to conflict."

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- David MacDowell Blue

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

"...Many of the play's emotional revelations are presented through lengthy letters, read aloud. Legitimate suffering occurs but could have been avoided. And the final scene, while visually striking, is muddy and inconclusive. Maybe that's intentional - a way of suggesting that these types of struggles are ongoing, without a clean resolution. Maybe it's careless writing."

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- Vanessa Cate

Accessibly Live Off-Line - Recommended

"...This play written by Jireh Breon Holder takes a historical point in 20th century American history and develops a melodrama that is both stirring and fiery in terms of emotion. The ensemble cast of these four players show their skills to portray their characters with a sense of believability through Michael A. Shepperd's stage direction. The dialogue in honest in scope, even at times where the so-called "N" word is used to refer to what they are, but not in any derogatory stance! It's part of how their community treated those that were colored, even through they were just as honest citizens compared to those of causation decent."

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- Rich Borowy

Too Heavy For Your Pocket at Sacred Fools Theater