Inter-Cultural Collaborative Plays

In 1981, in response to increasing Ku Klux Klan activity in the South, Roadside and Junebug Productions, an African-American company from New Orleans, began performing for each other's home audiences – one predominately white, the other black, both low to moderate income.

The success of this project launched an ongoing artistic collaboration through which two jointly developed plays, Junebug/Jack and RoadBug, were produced and toured nationally for eight years.

In 2000-2002, Roadside toured Promise of a Love Song, a musical play created with Junebug Productions and Pregones Theater, a Puerto Rican theater from the Bronx, New York.

These collaborations humanize the issues of race and class by speaking to cultural differences as well as common experiences.

Read an excerpt from Promise of a Love Song