Cheryl L. West’s one-woman show ‘Fannie’ fueled by civil rights era songs and history.
Greta Oglesby stars as civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s new production, “Fannie.”Fannie Lou Hamer was a force to be reckoned with. A tireless crusader for civil rights, she was harassed, threatened, jailed and beaten for trying to exercise her legal right to vote in Mississippi in the early ’60s. She even ran for Senate in 1964 in a party she co-founded.
“She’s just made out of stuff that I don’t think I as Greta have,” says Greta Oglesby, who stars as Hamer. “I think I’d have given up. But she never gave up. She’s like, ‘I’m fighting for civil rights and human rights and voting rights, and I will do that until the day I die.’ Her tenacity and the fearlessness that she just woke up with every day is extraordinary to me. I just hope that I can do her justice.
“He’s one of my favorite people to work with because he’s so good at what he does,” Oglesby says. “So Tim calls, I come running.”
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