This is a special performance of "American Menu" at the Ensemble Theatre to which we have invited graduates of ALF, Leadership Houston, Center for Houston's Future, and Project Blueprint. There will be a buffet dinner prior to the show and a post-show "Talk-Back" when the audience will dialogue with the actors.

American Menu - by Don Wilson Glenn; directed by Eileen J. Morris

It's May 1968, shortly after the murder of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a month before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Five Black kitchen workers at a segregated lunch counter are forced to engage in painful self-examination brought about by the senseless death of a young boy. Through passionate conversations, these women face the realities of life on the cusp of change. Jammed in a hot, airless room they must battle prejudice, poverty, ignorance and each other as they search for inspiration.