Suitcase Theatre Offering 'These Truths' On Sunday

Watching Rehearsal

Carl Swinck of 904 Packard (let), who is tour director of the group, watch a rehearsal preparatory to an international tour. The group includes high school and college youths.
Suitcase Theatre Offering "These Truths" On Sunday

An hour-long version of "... these truths . .." will be given by the Suitcase Theatre at 10:30 a.m Sunday in the First Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw.

A 90-minute version of the performance will tour the U.S., The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, England, Wales, Scotland and Canada.

High school and college youth are involved in the enterprise, which is directed by Powell Lindsay of 2339 S. Circle Drive. His wife, June McKee Lindsay, is information coordinator.

Those who are chosen by audition to take part in the production are young people who have demonstrated their talents in the performing arts, scholarship, leadership in school, church and community affairs, plus their interest in human and intergroup relations.

They come from broad ethnic, socio-economic and religious backgrounds.

The production is a review of life in America, showcasing poetry, song, dance and dramatic vignettes by black and white writers on intergroup relations.

Starling in 1937, Lindsay and Langston Hughes presented plays together in New York. Lindsay organized Suitcase Theatre in January, 1970, with the endorsement of the Michigan Education Association.

In November, 1970, Suitcase Theatre received its corporation papers as a nonprofit, educational, cultural and charitable organization. It was granted tax-exempt status so it could raise funds for needed scholarship support and to ensure continued expansion of its work.

It has been chosen by the Michigan Association of Classroom Teachers to receive its Human Relations Award this year.

The group is dedicated to stimulating national and international good will by demonstrating “democracy in action.”

The performance on Sunday is being sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Church to raise additional scholarship funds for the group.