Pretty Fire
When
Approximate running time: 2 hours
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Event Notes
The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center (AHCAC) celebrates Women’s History Month with the NAACP award-winning play, “Pretty Fire.” This production is a part of AHCAC’s 45th Anniversary celebration.
“Pretty Fire,” winner of two NAACP Theatre Awards (Best Play and Best Playwright), is the first play of a trilogy written by playwright and actress Charlayne Woodard. In five autobiographical vignettes, the play is a touching story of an African American family through three generations of love, struggle and triumph. The one-woman show shares the story of Woodard’s premature birth and her growing up in Albany, New York, while the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in her grandparents’ town in Georgia.
“Pretty Fire” also serves as the directorial debut of Carbonell-nominated actress, and Winner of the Broadway World Award for Best Actress, Khadijah Rolle.