In All Our Glory is a senior thesis performance devised and directed by Monet Debose (BMC ‘21). In All Our Glory is a presentation that centers on black stories of struggle and liberation from the perspective of youth and young adults. Debose collaborated with Bryn Mawr College students and Edwin M. Stanton School middle school students from South Philadelphia to create a performance that reflects their joy and pain living in a country that often overlooks their experiences. This performance was inspired and founded upon Freedom School Poetry, a book of poetry created by the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee published in 1966. This book of poems is an accumulation of students' writings that center on their longing for freedom in segregated Mississippi. Fifty-five years after this book of poems was published, we are still asking ourselves what freedom really means, and Debose and her student collaborators have worked tirelessly to answer that question for themselves.
Ticket Information and Performance Schedule
There were two performances, Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College. They were free and open to the Bi-Co Community Only, in a masked, socially-distant, limited-capacity gathering, following the College's COVID-19 safety guidelines.
Schedule
- Saturday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. (Director's Talk-Back to follow)
Seating begins at 7:00 p.m.
All performances take place at the Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College. The show runs approximately 40 minutes.