TIFTON—The Baldwin Players theatre troupe at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will stage a three-night run of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” beginning Oct. 27 and continuing through Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. each night in ABAC’s Howard Auditorium. Tickets will be available at the door at a cost of $10 for adults and $5 for youth.
Cast members include Timon Fields from Cordele as Eli, ABAC graduate Roderick Baisden from Tifton as Citizen Barlow, ABAC business major Yolanda Powell from Orlando, Fla., as Aunt Ester, ABAC writing and communication major Terrie Powell from Tifton as Black Mary, Jhalin Pittmon from Tifton as Solly Two-Kings, Ezzard Stewart from Fitzgerald as Caesar Wilks, and ABAC music major Easton Mayo from Tallahassee, Fla., as Rutherford Selig.
Baldwin Players’ Director Brian Ray said the production centers on a time of racial tension in Pittsburgh when Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old healer, leads Citizen Barlow on a powerful, mystical journey of awakening and redemption across history and time to the City of Bones in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Barlow, a young man from Alabama, is in the midst of great spiritual turmoil at the time.
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