New South Players Guild performs a Juneteenth play at Ohr-O’Keefe Museum

While Juneteenth might officially be on Wednesday, many celebrated over the weekend with the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum honoring the day with a play.

It was a packed house at the museum as members of the New South Players Guild performed ‘The Colored Museum’ by black playwriter George C. Wolfe.

The play was free to the public and centered around displaying prominent themes and identities of African-American culture in a fictional museum.

Members of the cast shared more on the play and celebrating African-American history. Actress Lekeisha Cotton said, “Symbolizes more than just freedom but liberation. It symbolizes, who we once were, who we are now and what we are to become.”

Actor Kirk Bush said, “Powerful, powerful black leaders that we have, and that were expressing on this stage who didn’t have a voice, even though some of it is a bit hard a bit tough to tackle, to express. So, to give us the opportunity to express our feelings in that way on Juneteenth is very important.”