Upcoming Events
For Our Children Productions presents “The Shoot Out” - Tuesday, May 22, 2007
7:30 pm
Admission: $15.00
Tickets are available by calling 804-647-0832 or at the box office the night of the performance.
Rated R for violence & Language
Children Free
THE SHOOTOUT is a two-man, hour dramatization depicting the spiritual and psychological divisions that have historically ripped apart just about any and all semblance of unity amongst African Americans. The shootout starts right from the beginning where Africans were snatched so violently and decisively from Mother Africa. African Americans have been physically, mentally and spiritually attacked in ways that share few rivals in human history. Within one hundred years into captivity, scarcely any original religion, native tongue, name or family existed.
Conflict, division and discord have played throughout the Diaspora, over hundreds of miles of slave plantations, under brutal oppression by the same slave master, in the heat of wars and conflicts against a common enemy, in living rooms and conference rooms, when worshipping the same God, when living in the same neighborhood, and while engaging in sport and play.
In The Shootout, the shooting is not only outwardly against each other, but also, inwardly within us. Our own hearts and souls have repeatedly fallen victim to wanton drive by shootings triggered by our own minds. You will regret, ponder, sigh, cry and, even sometimes laugh, your way through this highly charged, emotional and realistic wake up call.
THE SHOOTOUT takes a raw account of the conflicting impressions of slavery, post-Reconstruction, years of Ku Klux Klan terror and lynching, the depression, the blues, jazz, Motown and Hip Hop, the civil rights struggle and the Black Liberation Movement, drafts in the “white mans’ wars,” drugs, prison, unemployment, black on black crime and violence, police brutality and --- HOPE.
With hope and faith we can rise above it all, unite under God’s grace and blessing and find our true worth and value in this world. This we must do!