The dynamic traveling charismatic preacher Purlie Victorious Judson returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community’s church to emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join us in this mission by joining TCG, which entitles you to copies of our quarterly print magazine and helps support a long legacy of quality nonprofit arts journalism.