"every tongue confess" opens at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Get a glimpse of the world-premiere production of "every tongue confess," which opens the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. See what the actors have to say about working on Marcus Gardley's new play in a theater designed for new works.

"every tongue confess"
By Marcus Gardley
Directed by Kenny Leon
November 9, 2010-January 2, 2011
In the Kogod Cradle

In the backwater town of Boligee, Alabama, the summer heat is rising higher, driving the townsfolk to distraction and conjuring the spirits of the past to walk the earth. Wrapped in the combustible music of a Deep South juke joint and the sweat-soaked gospel of a revivalist church tent, intergenerational stories of loss and redemption collide. Playwright Gardley blends ancient myth with magical realism, Biblical allegory with the local TV news to create a fiery theatrical furnace in which some will be saved, some will be purged and the truth cannot escape.

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• Marcus Gardley
• every tongue confess
• Kenny Leon
• Mead Center
• Arena Stage
• Leslie Kritzer
• Jim Ireland
• Jason Dirden
• Eugene Lee
• Autumn Hurlbert
• Crystal Fox
• E. Roger Mitchell
• Phylicia Rashad
• Jonathan Peck