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John McTavish and Judith Brockâ€" ; really prepared for what they %fi}” ?1?1"5 Iehurst wrote the play, and dedicated it : heard. When using certain racial S ts :ior King and fl}e oldest ui;his four chilâ€" } that were repugnant to her, she said, en, Yolanda (1955â€"2007). 4 ® M one could hear a pin drop. First produced in a Kitchener church uk Following thepp].ay, cast members in 1985, with Yolanda King present, it he* A h were invited to share with the audience follows the Nobel Prizeâ€"winning minisâ€" \ f what the experience had meant to them. i ter from the 1950s through the 1955 #" f | f Lander recalls being moved by Candace © :l‘:ctl‘flel%: ‘c‘l’la? Sgasflnfie}its 1;‘[)53 Parks l [3 \ Cox‘s tears and theéeelings she mkne‘lj{e at ignite e Civil Rights Movement, % L i# d 1i in Japan, so S tl'u'ouah the bombing of the King family undcea:sltozc;wl}\;:t itlmeagns to be the 2:51;'1:5;1_;;;(’)5:: right through to his 1968 i 8 Submitted photo «o minsohriry;," Flaith Cam})h;l]] sgaj‘terybody i $ e cast in the recent production of at St. Andrew‘s Uni i f | "She feels strongly that e Yolanda was born in 1955, just two . included (back, from lef) Candace Cox, Alwin Campball, Lochian Con, Leon gill, with | | should get a chance to live in another weeks netore the Rosa Parks incident, _ director David Lander, plus (front, from left) To Constable. Natacheie Belkie, â€" s on ettaifen io. dn and was w1_th her mother Coretta in Gabby Mutton, Faith Campbell and Joan Stover. 4 t J you understand wl_wt '1‘ts like, Her emoâ€" their h_ome in Montgomery, Alabama, ~lifâ€" tions were so genuine. when it was bombed by local segregaâ€" _ reflect on what the play had meant to _ the drama with a digital display off to css s While the adult cast memb‘el:rs we:ni tionists. _ them. For Stover, it inspired more _ the side that showed the photos of the familiar with a particularly vile rgcfi’e Rey» David Lander, who directed the â€" research into Rosa Parks‘s life. times: the signs that directed coloured Submitted photo _ slur, young Gabby said 111:1 Wws T Vzlfirerféd play in Grafton, noted that it was perâ€" _ "Everybody reaches a breaking point _ people to the back of the bus or to sepaâ€" â€" Grafton resident Alwin Campbell (seen _ had never heard. This gla . formed 'r.he' da_y before the centennial of _ and it‘s amazing that an everyâ€"day . rate (and usually broken or inferior) _ with cast member Gabby Mutton) played Ca:npb%lds heatrtfi are sheftered and Rosa Parks‘s birth.. person could start a movement like that. _ drinking fountains, news photos from _ MartinLuther King Jr. in a recent play at u_ Nos QII:h e’% dy. Then they go | Natosisia Belkie played the part of _ It gives you hope that anything is possiâ€" â€" the Montgomery bus boycoit that . St. Andrew‘s United Church in Gratton. _ 49=¢ Meet Will nmdithey ate thiral): the Montgomery seamstress who was _ ble if you believe in something strong â€" Parks‘s actions sparked, footage of offito ."'}.'vfirs’ltyda" ts going home from a hard day of work on _ enough," Stover said. King‘s Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washâ€" As a black woman of average height, _ iNt0 !filsl es S“]; T had te deseribe Dec. 1, 1955. Coloured people were supâ€" "I realize this play was a drama of _ ington, where more than a quarter of a _ his wife Faith said, "I don‘t think you are Still, Cath eI 4 U natneritel posed to go to the back of the bus, but a _ what went on, but it kind of threw me â€" million people heard his famous I Have. _ treated badly. You are just invisible." putting on this play as a m weary Parks plopped down into a seat â€" back in time. I was really embarrassed _ A Dream speech. She recalls as a youngster being disâ€" e"}?e“e“c;', ieal Rapperied bere | only two or three rows from the front. _ by the white persons‘ reactions towards As a tall, rather elegant man of gentle _ missed with the phrase, ‘Go back to i So_ml‘_’zlh"lllg ":atg‘;fi pP & When the bus grew more crowded, the _ the black people at that time. It was spirit, Alwin Campbell seemed an ideal Timbuktu.‘ It was only as a grown ataisht ehe staied" driver ordered het to the rear. She â€" really a humbling experience to be able . choice to play King, but there‘s also the _ woman that she learned Timbuktu is ie naemiumaaenamadiaiea stayed put, saying she was too tired to _ to be part of that." __ two men‘s shared willingness to turn . quite a wonderful place. {t:i.euf‘;'lt:ep:comfNT@;nasmifll $ . move. While her character Alma was comâ€" _ the other cheek. He may choose to walk She also recalled life in Oshawa in the 3 3 Rev: King â€" at that time an unknown. _ fortable with things like backâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"bus away from a confrontational situation, _ 1950s. f preacher, although a very eloquent one _ seating and separate drinking fountains _ Campbell said, but that‘s not weakness "The diversity was nothing close to * â€" admired her courage, threw himself _ for coloured people, Stover was shocked _ #it‘s a choice. what it became. If you saw a black into her cause, and the rest is history. to realize how segregationist policies He recalls the contrast of this nonvioâ€" _ person, you would run up to say hi. Â¥ Reflecting on how everything just _ permeated everyâ€"day life. lent philosophy to the byâ€"anyâ€"meansâ€" Nobody could have dreamed what grew from there, Joan Stover (who Alma was friends with a white woman _ possible philosophy of Malcolm X, preâ€" _ Durham would become. I swear, in my played a white woman named Alma, â€" named Maureen (played by Candace senting American blacks with a different _ lifetime, I will see it in Cobourg," she 3 who accepted the prejudices of those â€" Cox}, who questioned the prejudices. _ kind of choice. He wonders how things . predicted. days) said it was as if the time was right _ Alma accepted. Cox‘s son Lochlan and might have been had Malcolm X had Campbell was delighted the play was and the stars were all aligned. Leon Silk played Bo and Reg, a pair of _ more followers, or if he hadn‘t been presented to a full house, with (she later "Once she said, ‘No. This has got to _ violent bigots. assassinated in 1965. 7 stop,‘ she started a revolution like this. It Tom Constable played Daniel, a Campbell often finds himself the subâ€" was really fantastic,when you think of _ young black man who grew impatient ject of surprised second glances, espeâ€" p it," Stover said. with King‘s.nonâ€"violent approach, and a _ cially from young children holding on to Stover recently joined Lander, along little girl from Castleton named Gabby their parents‘ hands, but he never â€" y & with Alwin and Faith Campbell (who _ Mutton rounded out the cast. knows if it‘s because of his exceptional / '\\ played Martin and Coretta King), to Parishioner Shasta Morey added to _ height or because he‘s black. | ; | \ i b\; f * â€" X T