The Road to Damascus (As Told by Grandmother to Little Red)

Description

The Road to Damascus (As Told by Grandmother to Little Red) is a solo performance piece with live music that uses the story of Saul/Paul’s conversion experience from Acts 9 of the New Testament as a call for an awakening to the role the church has played in creating and supporting our country’s inequitable criminal legal system. The Road to Damascus is written and performed by Kathy Randels and directed and co-created with Odile Del Giudice and designers Diane Baas (lighting), Kevin Griffith (set), Steve Gilliland (sound and music) and Shawn Hall (costumes). Tricia Anderson serves as stage manager. The piece draws upon: Randels’ upbringing in the church as the offspring of two generations of Southern Baptist preachers; teaching theater to and learning from the currently and formerly incarcerated women at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women for 29 years; a decade of dialogue and action with St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church and its Center for Faith + Action around the ways in which faith communities can participate in long-needed criminal legal system reform in our state; and Del Giudice’s years of deep work identifying and addressing collective trauma. Tickets are sliding-scale with a suggested price of $20 and can be purchased at the door or in advance by visiting https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/artspot/rtd2025. The Road to Damascus runs 75 minutes with no intermission and is appropriate for audiences 12-years-old and up.