Bee-luther-hatchee

Showing September 13 - 29, 2024

By Thomas Gibbons
Directed by Cristina Palacio

Shelita Burns, an African-American editor, publishes Bee-luther-hatchee, the autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old woman named Libby Price. Shelita has never met Libby, and when the book wins a prestigious award she decides to deliver it to her in person. To her profound shock, the actual author of the book is a white man named Sean Leonard. Furious and resentful, Shelita accuses Sean of perpetrating a hoax, while he defends the book as a truthful work of imagination. Their confrontation, played out on the edge of the racial divide, builds to a jarring act of violence.

Bee-luther-hatchee arrives Friday, September 13, and runs through Sunday, September 29; showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Sundays at 2:00 PM, at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre (3501 SW 2nd Ave, Suite O, Gainesville, FL, 32607, in Creekside Mall). A $5 Preview will be held on Thursday, September 12, at 8:00pm.

Tickets [https://acrosstown.ticketleap.com/bee-luther-hatchee] are $25 for the general public with a $5 discount for seniors (55+), students, teachers, first responders, veterans and military.