KATRINA: The Bridge

Directed by Steven W. Wallace
Written by Nathaniel Freeman
October 3, 4, 10, 11 at 8:00 pm
October 12 at 2:00 pm
Wortham Theatre, University of Houston Main Campus

Tickets: 713.743.2929 www.theatredance.uh.edu

No food, no water...but theres still hope. This new multi-media production is based on the stories and experiences of the Hurricane Katrina survivors that were stranded on the I-10 overpass during the days after their neighborhoods were decimated. Interviews were gathered as part of the Surviving Katrina & Rita in Houston Project.


Filmed by Viral Bhakta
Edited by Luis Gonzalez

Category:

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• Katrina
• Bridges
• The
• University
• of
• Houston
• Theatre

[gmecomber]

@fiocchiman Exactly right... I was there. I can tell scores of stories.

[gmecomber]

Totally inaccurate... I was there. Saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. T'his is way more civilized than it actually was. And again... they blame the white cop for keeping them down.

[fiocchiman]

@Procharmo There were NOT "plenty of tourists" on that bridge. I WAS HERE! Those low-lifes on that bridge were the dumbest, least productive, and most criminal elements of New Orleans. Those animals destroyed what little was left after the storm. Gretna STOPPED THEIR CITY FROM BEING DESTROYED BY ANIMALS. Fuck tunisa, egypt, or libya. Those places have been shitholes for the last 2000 years and they still are. Don't criticize a better country than yours, you nihilist fuck. Piss off.

[Procharmo]

@fiocchiman There were plenty of tourists on that bridge. They left their hotels and didn't want to do to the Dome so they tried to walk across the bridge. The crowd was 95% black meaning thousands of whites were also stopped walking from one part of Louisiana to another by police. Face it America has so much hate be it financial class or race that in the face of adversity you will pick fights on each other...

Unlike Tunisia, Egypt or Libya be it black, Arab, poor, middle class they are one!

[fiocchiman]

Of course, the "Mean ole WHITE cop" story again. Yeah right. I used to be NOPD, and the department discriminates AGAINST WHITE cops. Most of the people "stranded" after the storm were scumbags who lived in the housing projects. This is a mis-representation of the events and types of people involved. This is liberal politically correct BULLSHIT. Too bad more scumbags didn't die in the storm. The city would have been better off.

[martoss15]

I saw this at UH last semester and I cried, being a Type 1 Diabetic and knowing a lot of people that survived and tried mending their lives after Katrina - I fell in love with this show, beautiful work Mr. Wallace did.

[getout3412]

Looks awesome russell!

[dscats19]

Russell, this looks fantastic - I'm glad to see you're doing well - Derek

[devodog30]

Looks like a great show, wish I was in Houston to see you bro-Tasha