Purlie Victorious

Purlie Victorious is a satirical play that tells the story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preacher returning to rural Georgia to save his small hometown church. Purlie must contend with the deeply entrenched racism and inequality in 1950s sharecropper-dominated southern Georgia to reestablish his church.

Content Notes: plays on broad stereotypes of Black Americans to mock the attitudes of white powerbrokers in the Jim Crow era. It includes descriptions and depictions of racially motivated violence and coercion; depictions of economic exploitation; depiction of a Confederate Flag; depiction of a gun (never fired); discussion of unwanted kissing and sexual touch; depiction of onstage death; and use of a range of racially derogatory slurs, including variations on the n-word.