The Left Hand Singing March 27, 2009

A new play from the writer of A SHAYNA MAIDEL (presented in CSTs eighth season), focuses on the disappearance of three college students who head to Mississippi to register black voters during the summer of 1964, a time known as Freedom Summer. We see the students in flashbacks in the dorm room one a black student, one an idealistic Jewish student, and the third a liberal Protestant boy as they play and plan their trip south. Their story alternates with that of their parents, whom we see right after their childrens disappearance, then days later and many years later. The parents seem inescapably linked by their shared loss, but we see their relationships tested as the ideals of the 1960s give way to the cynicism of subsequent decades.