Eyes of the Bridge

Show Description:

What happens when Black love collides with white lust for excitement at the turn of the 20th century in the old south? The prospects of sexual liaisons are fraught with danger. Luda Mae and her beloved Samson, a “colored” couple in Alabama in 1908, are planning to marry, open their own shop where they can ply their trades, farm their land, and raise a large and loving family. But disaster strikes, in the form of Miss Gracie Lewis, daughter of the town’s most prominent white family, ending Luda Mae and Samson’s future, causing Luda Mae to retreat into a world of work, and few expectations. Until, one fateful day forty years later, when Luda Mae is called to revisit the tragedy of her love cruelly lost, she sees the chance for a reckoning. Will the Jim Crow status quo prevail?

Or will she answer her age-old cries for justice?