As their attempts at renewal leave a path of destruction in their wake, Kali bears witness to what the floodwaters left behind. While the rest of the country’s attention drifts, the neighborhood’s residents are left to repair the damage from the inside out.
Rhyming, stealing and scamming her way through the still-destroyed neighborhood, she embarks on a journey to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life. Camille Spirlin (ABC’s American Koko, Fox TV’s Rosewood, Nickelodeon’s Marvin Marvin) stars as 14-year-old runaway Kali. Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the unhealed wounds of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward continue to fester.
Multiple award-winning Shirley Jo Finney returns to the Fountain to direct the world premiere of Runaway Home for a Sept. The Fountain Theatre presents a powerful, funny and deeply moving mother-daughter story by Jeremy J. Sometimes what you’re searching for is right where you started.
