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America/Amerique is a documentary play about American Immigrants and America, 1845 to the Present.

The dramatic scenes and portraits of America/Amerique are based on real voices— eyewitness accounts of striking events and people. From Irish potato fields to Midwestern farms and New York tenements….from New England factories to the Union Pacific Railroad across the Rockies, to the Mexican border 2008, America/Amerique explains from where the broad ethnic diversity has come to the United States of America.

The National Tour of America/Amerique is presented by The JENA Company of New York, producers of new work by acclaimed theatre artists. In February 2006, the JENA Company presented My Soul Is A Witness at Orange Hall Theatre. With America/Amerique, the JENA Company continues to bring American stories to life on stage.

The research and historical framework for the play have been developed and guided by an award winning young historian, Thomas Jessen Adams, PhD who currently teaches at Tulane University. The director of the play is Alex Levy who is the winner of five Joseph Jefferson Awards for Excellence in Theatre.

Tickets may be purchased at the George F. Shepard Student Center 9am to 7:30pm Monday-Thursday and 9am to 4:30pm on Fridays and beginning at 7pm the evening of the performance.