“Our beliefs create our reality” — Juliette Jeffers
The actress on playing 20 different characters in her solo show.
Juliette Jeffers is bringing her important and illuminating solo show Judgement Day to the Whitefire Theatre for a specially scheduled presentation for Black History Month on February 28th.
Jeffers, who produces and directs in addition to writing and acting, is the curator for the Black Voices Solo Theatre Festival at the Whitefire Theatre.
Her play Judgement Day — which originally premiered as a full-length production in Atlanta in 2017 — asks the question: What if God were held responsible for all of the atrocities committed against Black people?
Ja’Quon Johnson believes he is being brought to the courthouse to be tried for his role in a drug sting operation. Instead, he is surprised to learn that he is being called as a witness against God Himself. God is being charged with hating Black people, based on the evidence of their suffering prejudice, indignities, slavery, hatred, discrimination and murder over the course of four centuries. Testimony is heard from slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, two very different Black clergymen, even a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
How could God permit the long litany of…
