ReCON$truXion at the alabama shakespeare festival
Written by Pulitzer prize winner Robert Schenkkan and directed by Steve Broadnax III, this world premiere tells the unbelievable, true story of Mississippi’s first Black Speaker of the House.
In the searing aftermath of the Civil War, a man born into slavery challenges the broken promises of Reconstruction. John Lynch rose to become the first Black Speaker of Mississippi’s House of Representatives, a United States Congressman, and chair of the Republican National Convention.