Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies is celebrating their 12th anniversary this Friday, Feb 20th at 7:00 pm, and they’re celebrating with a bit of a mixed media affair: play reading interspersed with video, followed by facilitated discussion:
Project Unspeakable
A Dramatic Reading of Selected Sections of the Play, with Video Vignettes
(A Play by Court Dorsey, based on a book by Jim Douglass)
Portions of the play will be a read by Friends of Meaningful Movies, a collection of 12 readers from our own social justice community. And we’ll augment the performance with interspersed historical videos.
Coinciding with the 50th commemoration of the death of Malcolm X (Feb 21, 1965), Project Unspeakable is a theatrical work about the role of Thomas Merton’s “Unspeakable” in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy.
From the authors of the play: “A generation of baby-boomers who have lived most of their adult lives in the rubble of shattered dreams, who have seen the great leaders of their generation slaughtered in officially whitewashed circumstances, are invited to come forward to insist that the truth finally be uncovered regarding this destruction of lives and visionary leadership. In addition,
Project Unspeakable offers [everyone] a unique opportunity, not only to learn more about these four inspirational leaders of the 1960’s, but also to reenergize their recent efforts to confront current manifestations of the ‘Unspeakable,’ as many have already been doing in the ‘Occupy’ and the climate action movements.”
The play is followed by a facilitated community discussion.
Takes place at 5019 Keystone Place N. (in the Keystone Church building. The event is open to the public, admission by donation.
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