Myth America – storytelling show for grownups by Milbre Burch

What do an Irish immigrant, an unhoused person, an essential worker and a child in her unstudied wisdom have in common? Their humanity calls to our own. This free storytelling performance for adult audiences is a retrospective show for our times, comprised of three original dramatic monologues written across Milbre Burch’s nearly-fifty-year career alongside family history and a personal story. Drawing on a “crazy quilt” of American experience, Burch places several unexpected voices at center stage.

This show on August 25th at 7 pm at the Olin T. Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive in Chapel Hill, will start with a presentation by Advance Placement High School English teacher Mary Wood, who was censored by her school board in SC for teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book Between the World and Me. the Washington Post picked up the story; the ACLU stepped in and Ta-Nehisi Coates came to sit with Wood at a school board meeting. During an intermission, dessert will be served. And a voter registration drive is embedded in the event. So bring along any of your neighbors who need to register to vote!

Following Burch’s performance, freelance journalist and author Janine Latus will lead a community conversation with the two presenters and the audience to discuss the issues brought up that evening.