Anne Galjour's Hurricane

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Anne Galjour

Hurricane

Tuesday & Wednesday, FEBRUARY 6 & 7 • 7 pm

Warner Bentley Theater
$20 • Dartmouth students $5 • General admission

Click here for a video clip of Anne Galjour, Hurricane

Years before Katrina irrevocably transformed the Louisiana bayou, Anne Galjour created her award-winning solo play Hurricane. A living oral history of communities that have been washed away, Hurricane spins the tales of six quirky, lovable characters living on the edge of a wild and formidable landscape. Originally from Cut Off, Louisiana, Galjour lives and teaches in San Francisco, where she's developed six critically acclaimed plays. She works in the rich homespun tradition of Southern storytellers like Flannery O'Connor, effortlessly juggling her cast of Cajun characters and masterfully bringing each of them to life. Lurking beneath the comic peculiarities of shooting 'gators, visions of the Virgin and cooking up rattlesnake is an underlying tension, like electricity building up in the air before a storm.

A portion of the proceeds from this performance benefit arts organizations throughout New Orleans.

Part of Class Divide, a three-year Hopkins Center initiative examining social and economic class issues.

This performance is funded in part by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England.