Every Tongue Confess
Cast Requirements
4 men
4 women
Production and Development History
Commissioned: Arena Stage.
Produced: Arena Stage (November 2010), directed by Kenny Leon.
In the backwater town of Boligee, Alabama, the summer heat is rising higher, driving the townsfolk to distraction and conjuring the spirits of the past to walk the earth. Wrapped in the combustible music of a Deep South juke joint and the sweat-soaked gospel of a revivalist church tent, intergenerational stories of loss and redemption collide. Based upon biblical stories and events in the town’s history, Every Tongue Confess awakes a fiery theatrical furnace in which some will be saved, some will be purged, and the truth cannot escape.




4 men
4 women
Commissioned: Arena Stage.
Produced: Arena Stage (November 2010), directed by Kenny Leon.
added the Play Every Tongue Confess
added the Play On the Levee
added the Play the road weeps, the well runs dry
added the Play And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
added the Play dance of the holy ghosts
