VALDOSTA — Local playwright Jimmy Boyd believes his latest play, “Scars of the Heart,” is his funniest while also digging deep into relationships and issues.
“This show looks deep into (the characters’) lives,” Boyd says. The show is about forgiveness, betrayal, loving someone who loves someone else, and it should get lots of laughs.
“Scars of the Heart” is also designed to help the lives of local youngsters. The show is a fund-raiser for the Union Cathedral Community School of the Arts’ coming Summer Arts Institute which hopes to offer three weeks of theatre, visual arts, dance, and music courses for 100 local youngsters, hopefully at little or no cost to the participants.
Jimmy and his wife Danita Boyd are organizing the fund-raisers, the school of arts, and the Summer Institute which will be held at Southeast Elementary School. The centerpiece of the fund-raising and an example of the institute’s possibilities is the premiere of “Scars of the Heart.”
This play is a sequel to Boyd’s fall 2007 play “Can U Hear Me Now?” which was also a comedy that addressed issues that young people face. Issues such as premarital sex, teen pregnancy, gang violence, peer pressure, HIV/AIDS.
“Scars of the Heart” follows the same characters with most of the same performers who played in “Can U Hear Me Now?” Other Boyd plays, written with wife Danita and Tania Brown, include “Let Go and Let God,” about a convict who finds the only way he can break free from jail is if he gives himself to God, and “Another Man’s Shoes.”
With their Voi Entertainment, the Boyds and Brown took “Another Man’s Shoes” on a professional, national tour a few years ago. It was the story set in a wise man’s shoe shop and followed many characters including the principal characters of a businessman who judges success by the size of his bank account and another man who has fallen from the top of his game to rock bottom.
“Another Man’s Shoes” looked at tough issues but was served with plenty of laughs, a formula that Boyd has followed in all of the plays including the latest “Scars of the Heart.”
THE CAST: Jimmy Boyd, Tawanna Bass, Korei Bonner, Alexis Harden, Porscha Berrian, Isaiah Williams, Marquis Thompkins, Alonzo Flucas, Yuntel Morrison, Veshawn Davis, Stacy Bradshaw, Taurence Phillips. Director: Jimmy Boyd.
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Jimmy Boyd and Voi Entertainment’s “Scars of the Heart.”
• When: Show plays one night only, 6 p.m. Saturday.
• Where: New Greater Union Cathedral, 1050 E. Hill Ave.
• Ticket: $5.
• More information: Call Danita Boyd, 834-0860.
All proceeds benefit the School of Arts Summer Arts Institute.
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Jimmy Boyd, front row center, with the cast of his play, 'Scars of the Heart.' Boyd write, directs and stars in the play, which is a fund-raiser for the Summer Arts Institute. The show plays Saturday evening. unknown
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