Playwright Vincent Terrell Durham is a black man. His head is shaven and has facial hair. He has a wide smile and his head is resting on the palm of his hand which is perched on a table. He is wearing a blue button up shirt.
Staged Play Reading
The Fertile River
Nov 9-11

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2023

The Fertile River

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It’s the summer of 1958 and Mrs. Sarah Woods has been visiting colored families in a small rural North Carolina community on a mission from the State. Cora Lee Burden is the latest to receive an appointment notice from Mrs. Woods. The sixty-four-year-old grandmother of a mentally challenged child has no idea what a white social worker from the government would want with her family. But being a colored woman of the south, she knows the visit is a call for caution.

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