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Metro Theatre Company

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Celebrate St. Louis Stories

This project is in collaboration with Our Lady of Guadalupe in Cool Valley/Ferguson and Jefferson Elementary in Old North St. Louis. The program will be launched in each school with their sixth grade classes with a family performance of Metro Theater Company's production of Delilah's Wish, written and performed by St. Louisan Mariah Richardson. The play draws on Richardson's experience growing up in a St. Louis urban neighborhood. Following the performance, Metro Theater Company teaching artists and Richardson will enter classrooms to help students launch their own process of gathering and recording stories from community members, sharing and documenting stories, writing and editing stories, and preparing a final presentation for their peers, families and community members to honor the rich culture of their neighborhood.