White Nights, Black Paradise: The Play
Published on November 06, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023 at 8 PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 8 PM
Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3 PM
Blue Door Theater
9617 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Tickets on Eventbrite
$25 for General Admission
$10 for Students and Seniors
The play takes place in 1978, Peoples Temple, a progressive, Black multiracial church and a grassroots vehicle for social justice activism and organizing in California. White Nights, Black Paradise showcases the lived experiences, politics, moral dilemmas, and social histories of multigenerational religious, secular, queer and cis Black women in Peoples Temple and Jonestown. A rehearsal of the play can be found on YouTube.
This play is written, produced, and directed by Sikivu Hutchinson. Hutchinson is an American feminist, novelist, playwright and director. She is the author of White Nights, Black Paradise (2015). In 2013 she was named Secular Woman of the year and in 2020 she was a recipient of the Harvard Humanist of the Year award.