Oakwood: 150 Years Young!
October 6, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Burning Coal Celebrates 150 Years of the Oakwood Cemetery
Past favorite Oakwood plays re-mounted for monumental anniversary celebration!
RALEIGH, NC – Oakwood Cemetery turns 150 years old this Fall and Burning Coal Theatre will celebrate with a compilation of favorite short plays from the past decade written for the Oakwood Series. Playwright Ian Finley (past North Carolina Piedmont Laureate) will be featured among this year’s writers. Each year, Burning Coal and Oakwood Cemetery team up to produce a series of plays about the inhabitants of Oakwood on the historic site. Burning Coal is Oakwood Cemetery’s oldest community partner having collaborated on Oakwood Series for the past 15 years. This anniversary year, we reflect on the cemetery’s past and the history of the Oakwood Series by reimagining favorite stories and play adaptations.
October 4th & 5th at 6:30 pm & October 6th at 2:00 pm / 701 Oakwood Ave | Raleigh, NC. Tickets $20 or $10 for students, available at 919.834.4001 or at the cemetery where parking will be available inside the cemetery.
This year’s production, directed by George Jack, will feature the stories of influential people from Raleigh’s past including J. Brinton Smith, Anne Wilkerson, Elizabeth Peele, Pullen & Ligon, Washington, Rachel Blythe, and Marshall Haywood. This year’s featured playwrights include Ian Finley, Rebecca Wyrick and Brook North. Come revisit some of your favorite characters from the past and see the ghosts of these plays re-awakened in the historic Oakwood Cemetery.
