"On a hot summer day a little over six decades ago, a quarter of a million people gathered peacefully in Washington, D.C. to demand laws to advance civil rights, protect voting rights and stop employment discrimination. It was there, at the March on Washington, that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his celebrated "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963."
"For me to write about the present time, I have the future to do that, but especially as my debut play starting with the history is super important to me. I'm a researcher as well. I really love history. And so being able to bring my experience as a theater artist and being a historian at the same time, I feel like I had the most meat and"
The American Five centers on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s preparations with close allies for the 1963 March on Washington and the "I Have A Dream" moment. The play runs through Oct. 12 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Chess Jakobs created the work as his debut play; he is an actor, producer, researcher and historian. The original concept spanned 1963 to the present, comprised three acts and 15 characters, and was called a Symphony of Plays after a four-hour reading. Jakobs narrowed the focus to the historic 1963 chapter. Actor Ro Boddie portrays King.
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