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Agape Theatre Project’s Next Show, Sept. 4-13, 2026
Agape Theatre Project presents Flyin’ West, a powerful story about Black women living in the 1890s. The production features an amazing cast and explores themes of family, resilience, race and life on the American frontier.
Facing challenges ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters to the possibility of domestic violence and the continuing specter of racial conflict, the women of Flyin’ West navigate a rapidly changing world.
The production centers on Miss Leah, an older woman whose memories of slavery and its aftermath provide a living oral history; Sophie Washington, whose determination to protect her land and those she loves challenges the idea that Western archetypes must be white and male; Fannie Mae Dove, the gentle sister who seeks to civilize the frontier with fine china and roses and finds herself falling in love with their soft-spoken neighbor, Wil Parish; and Minnie Dove Charles, the headstrong youngest sister whose mixed-race husband, Frank, introduces a danger into the household that tests their sisterhood in unexpected ways.
Agape Theatre Project’s Next Show, Sept. 4-13, 2026
Agape Theatre Project presents Flyin’ West, a powerful story about Black women living in the 1890s. The production features an amazing cast and explores themes of family, resilience, race and life on the American frontier.
Facing challenges ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters to the possibility of domestic violence and the continuing specter of racial conflict, the women of Flyin’ West navigate a rapidly changing world.
The production centers on Miss Leah, an older woman whose memories of slavery and its aftermath provide a living oral history; Sophie Washington, whose determination to protect her land and those she loves challenges the idea that Western archetypes must be white and male; Fannie Mae Dove, the gentle sister who seeks to civilize the frontier with fine china and roses and finds herself falling in love with their soft-spoken neighbor, Wil Parish; and Minnie Dove Charles, the headstrong youngest sister whose mixed-race husband, Frank, introduces a danger into the household that tests their sisterhood in unexpected ways.
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