Spirit Trickey-Rowan (center) and the cast of ‘One Ninth.’
‘ONE NINTH’
7 p.m., Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts. Free.
Spirit Trickey-Rowan knows a lot about living history. Her mother is Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine. Spirit, who grew up in Canada, works as a Ranger at the Central High visitor’s center where she’s taught thousands of people the story of the Central High Crisis. She’s produced documentaries and given countless speeches about her mother’s experience.
Her newest project takes a step away from the strictly historical and moves into the fictional. She says fiction is the best way to tell parts of the story that can’t be fully known through documentation alone. “One Ninth,” a docudrama written from Minnijean’s perspective as a 16-year-old girl, is her first attempt at telling a more subjective side of the story.