Friday + Saturday, November 11 + 12 @ 8:30pm

Collaborators Nataki Garrett and Andrea LeBlanc layer historical transcripts, video imagery, and re-imagined encounters to examine the exclusive exchange between Carolyn Bryant and Emmitt Till in Mississippi in 1955.

14-year black youth Emmett “Bobo” Till from Chicago walked into Bryant’s Store in Money, Mississippi in 1955 to purchase 5-cents worth of bubble gum from a 21-year old white mother of two young children, Carolyn Byrant. Within a few days Till’s bloated body was found tied to a cotton-gin fan in a shallow part of the Tallahatchie River. There are several different accounts of what happened in those fateful minutes shared between Bryant and Till in the store. This production explores those accounts by concentrating on the active collective imagination, the diffused focus of shared experience and the silent voice of the “white rose” of the south.

Carolyn Bryant Project is made possible in part, though funding by the Trans-Atlantic Consortium and Calarts Center for New Performance.

Blank-the-Dog is a collective of theatre Artists with the vision to produce boundless theatre and the mission of telling of all stories, in all ways, to all people. Past productions have received critical acclaim from such prestigious sources as the L.A. Times, Curtain-Up and LA Weekly. Their most recent production Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist by acclaimed New York based playwright Thomas Bradshaw received rave reviews at its premiere here in Los Angeles.

$20/$15