BY GEORGE J. DACRE This is the age of Internet bullying and use of social media to embarrass people. The play “The Truth About Agnes,” written and directed by Samual Harps at Shades Repertory in Haverstraw, focuses on the trauma and disaster that bullying and embarrassing can involve. Agnes is brilliantly portrayed by Alexis Salem, […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a deadline of April 19, the Haverstraw-based theatre group Shades Rep is going to the Internet with Kickstart and doing advertising in the Rockand County Times, educational journals and theater publications to raise the funds to present a national tour of “Freedom Summer,” written by Stony Point resident William Tucker. […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The year was 1964. It was a time of continuing frustration for black people in the State of Mississippi as obstacle after obstacle was put in their way as they tried to register to vote. They were still being demeaned by the white folk, called “n****r” and other derogatory slang. It […]