The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963

Learning Through Theatre

“I ain't never heard of no sickness that makes you kill little girls just because you don't want them in your school.  I don't think they're sick at all, I think they just let hate eat them up and turn them into monsters.”

Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, as they pile in the family car and head south – toward a horrific moment in American history.  Based on the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honor Book by Flint native, Christopher Paul Curtis.

 

By Christopher Paul Curtis    
Directed by Brittany Reed