Fall Mainstage Production

Cadillac Crew

by Tori Sampson
Directed by taneisha duggan

Featuring Cate Alston, MaConnia Chesser, Kyra Davis, and Alicia M.P. Nelson

at Shakespeare & Company’s
Tina Packer Playhouse

Thursdays-Sundays
October 13-29, 2022

“Strap in for a wild, mind-expanding ride.” – The Hartford Courant

“Just wish I could sense our future. Could feel the air change.
‘Cause then I know it’ll all be worth it.”

Four female activists are working in a Virginia civil rights office on the day of a much anticipated speech by Rosa Parks. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, CADILLAC CREW illuminates forgotten leaders who blazed the trail for desegregation and women’s rights. With remarkable insight and unexpected humor, the play asks, what happens when Black women refuse to be written out of history.

CADILLAC CREW is presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, 70 Kemble St, Lenox, MA 01240.

Run time under two hours.

Presented in special partnership with the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts.

COVID POLICIES
For the safety of our artists and staff masks are required inside at all times, regardless of vaccination status For further information, please email the box office at boxstaff@shakespeare.org

Our production of CADILLAC CREW has ended.

Thank you for your interest!

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Community Engagement

“I consider myself an 'artivist.' I know that the thing I love to do is to create and tell stories, so how do I use my art in service of my activism? What am I doing with this gift that God has given me? How am I using it to better the world?"
Tori SampsonPlaywright

"The idea of a 'Cadillac Crew'--a thoughtful multiracial cohort of women with the purpose of having living room conversations with other women around the country--is inspiring to me. It made the term 'mobilize' literal. I wonder what the country would look like if there were more living room chats about the things that ail us?"
taneisha dugganDirector

What they're saying about CADILLAC CREW…

"That’s one of Ms. Sampson’s gifts: She is uncowed by supposed rules of construction, unafraid of genre-switching to make a point. In her professional playwriting debut, a delightful work whose title I’ll abbreviate as “If Pretty Hurts,” she made a hairpin turn near the end that deepened everything that came before it."
- Jesse Green, New York Times
“'Cadillac Crew' succeeds in its aim to discover and amplify those lost and often buried voices of patriotic people who sacrificed all in their advocacy for equality. Sampson writes these woman realistically with very human qualities. Sampson’s strength in writing strong, brisk dialogue pricks the ear to listen and enjoy."
- E. Kyle Minor, New Haven Register