Contact: John Burrow

STARKVILLE, Miss.β€”91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ’s Theatre 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ is presenting a student produced and directed production of β€œPipeline,” a Dominique Morisseau play addressing the school-to-prison pipeline. It also spotlights a mother’s fight to give her son a future without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Performances are Friday [Feb. 26] and Saturday [Feb. 27] at 7:30 p.m., as well as Sunday [Feb. 28] at 2 p.m. in the mainstage theater at McComas Hall.Β The Saturday night performance features a live ASL interpretation by Jordan Oswald of 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ’s Disability Support Services.

Co-produced by Theatre 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ and the Blackfriars Drama Society, β€œPipeline” is student produced and directed by senior communication and kinesiology major Donovan Andrade, a Florida resident and native of Manama, Bahrain. Theatre 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ is the producing organization of the Department of Communication’s theatre concentration, and Blackfriars Drama Society is a student theatre organization.

A strict limit of 100 people will be allowed at each presentation for COVID-19 protocols to be followed. Tickets are available at . Payment options range from free, $5 or $10, in a β€œpay what you can” format. Ticket registration is required.

Andrade said the number of suspensions and expulsions of students from schools β€œhas nearly doubled since the β€˜70s because of the adoption of zero-tolerance policies,” and β€œthe play itself resonates with the struggles certain school systems are facing to this day.”

Support for the production is possible through a monetary donation from John and Myna Dickerson Sowell of Spring Hill, Tennessee. Myna is a former Theatre 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ participant and 91ΒιΆΉΜμΓΐ graduate.Β Β 

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