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  • Who We Are
    • Our People >
      • Meet The Founder
      • Actors
      • Associate Directors
      • Production Crew
  • Past Shows
    • Shrapnel in the Heart
    • An Inspector Calls
    • Nuts
    • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    • Hangman
    • Harvey
    • Fringe Festival 2019
    • Pirates of Chemotherapy
    • The Amen Corner
    • Almost Maine
    • Starry Messenger
    • Big Hunk O' Burning Love
    • Into the Light
    • The Exonerated
    • Land of Smiles
    • Christmas Choir
    • The Laramie Project
    • Steel Magnolias
    • A Comedy Showcase
    • Space >
      • Interview with Timothy about "Space"
    • Blithe Spirit
    • Driving Miss Daisy
    • The Eight Reindeer Monologues
    • Chiang Mai Fringe Festival
    • The Odd Couple
    • Three Takes
    • Strange Snow
    • The Gin Game
    • The Dodo Bird
  • Audition Form
  • Support The Gate
    • Become A Member
    • Our Silver and Gold Members and Supporters
    • Become A Sponsor >
      • Our 2024/2025 Season Sponsors
    • Advertise In Our Programs
    • Donate
    • Buy Tickets
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The Amen Corner
August 2019

The Gate Theater of Chiang Mai presents The Amen Corner, the first stage play by an African-American writer ever presented in Northern Thailand.

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.  

For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
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