Spoke: A Mother. a Son. Civil Rights. Vietnam. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Spoke: A Mother. a Son. Civil Rights. Vietnam

In 1963, Rosalyn Coleman Gilchrist, a white Oklahoma housewife, boarded a bus and rode it across the country to march on Washington. It wasn’t her first civil rights protest. On the bus she agreed to sell her home — in her all-white suburb — to a black doctor. Before the sale went through, the city fathers had her arrested and confined in the state mental hospital. She lost her home, her children, and her freedom. Five years later her youngest son — now facing prison for his own resistance to the draft and the Vietnam War — obtained his mother’s freedom. SPOKE takes readers from the lunch-counter sit-ins of the early 1960s to the draft-board raids later that same decade; from Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington to the 1968 DC Mobilization Against the War; from the nightmarish conditions of mid-century state mental institutions to the soul-less sterility of the federal prison system; from the advent of women’s lib to the dawn of the sexual revolution.

Coleman is a writer, actor and producer. He is co-founder (with Dean Bakopoulos) of PEDDLER CREEK - an arts organization offering writing workshops, readings and theatrical productions. As a playwright, he has adapted numerous popular works for performance, including adaptations of A Christmas Carol, A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Creeping Man and The Diary of William Stephens and more than thirty of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. His full-length dark comedy, Class, opened Alley Stage in 2007, and Faux Poe - a collection of fourteen short plays inspired by Poe - was produced in 2009 and 2010. Coleman is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Playwrights Ink of Madison, and a board member of the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He was awarded a Literary Artist Fellowship in 2009 by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and WAB Artist-Community Collaboration Grants in 2007 and 2009.

Coleman is a writer, actor and producer. He is co-founder (with Dean Bakopoulos) of PEDDLER CREEK - an arts organization offering writing workshops, readings and theatrical productions. As a playwright, he has adapted numerous popular works for performance, including adaptations of A Christmas Carol, A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Creeping Man and The Diary of William Stephens and more than thirty of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. His full-length dark comedy, Class, opened Alley Stage in 2007, and Faux Poe - a collection of fourteen short plays inspired by Poe - was produced in 2009 and 2010. Coleman is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Playwrights Ink of Madison, and a board member of the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He was awarded a Literary Artist Fellowship in 2009 by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and WAB Artist-Community Collaboration Grants in 2007 and 2009.