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Purlie Victorious

A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

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Purlie Victorious

By: Ossie Davis
Narrated by: Leslie Odom Jr., Heather Alicia Simms, Billy Eugene Jones, Kara Young, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jay O. Sanders, Noah Robbins, Bill Timoney, Noah Pyzik
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Experience the Broadway revival of Purlie Victorious, A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch in a captivating production, featuring the incomparable Leslie Odom, Jr. Originally premiering in 1961, this groundbreaking comedy by Ossie Davis is a cornerstone of African American theater.

Dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community’s church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, in a Tony Award-winning performance by Kara Young, Purlie hopes to pry loose an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to restore his beloved church. Through the power and lyricism of his language, Davis incisively and hilariously challenges racial stereotypes and discrimination, as a seminal voice for justice.

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©1961 Ossie Davis (P)2025 AO Media, LLC Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts

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