Warriors Don’t Cry

Name: Warriors Don’t Cry
Start: 2022-02-02
End: 2022-02-03
Location: The Bushnell

This original one-woman play dramatizes Melba Patillo Beals’s searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s central high, through the lens of a contemporary young activist.

Young activist, Ya Girl, is ready to call it quits on leading her Instagram followers in the fight for social justice. When Melba Pattillo Beals steps out of history and into Ya Girl’s phone to share the story of her battle to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.