Original Play to Cap RMU’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Moon Township, Pa. -- An original one-act play about the life of Martin Luther King Jr., “Dare to Dream,” will premiere this month in a free public performance at Robert Morris University (RMU).
Featuring a cast and crew of RMU alumni and students, the play focuses on events in the life of the late civil rights leader. “Dare to Dream” explores imagined incidents in King’s life, meant to show how King faced many of the same dilemmas as the rest of us.
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The play’s author and lead actor is Paul Spradley, an RMU alumnus and the university’s assistant director of student life for multicultural affairs. John Locke, also an alumnus and Spradley’s colleague in the Office of Student Life, will direct the play, which will be performed at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, in Massey Theater at RMU’s Moon Township campus.
“He’s very much larger than life to us now,” Spradley said of the civil rights hero. “But if you can show someone’s human side and the steps they took to get where they are, it becomes easier to relate to them.”
Audience members inspired by King’s service will be able help improve their own communities after the play. A number of volunteer organizations will have sign-ups in the theater lobby. |
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RMU’s celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. begins Jan. 12 with a display at the RMU Library in Patrick Henry Center, and culminates on Jan. 20 with a celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African-American president. Click here for a complete schedule of events.
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