Oct 19 – Nov 3, 2024 | Wells Fargo Playhouse
One Act, approx 70 min | For ages 6+
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Themes: Elections and voting, hard work, determination, women’s history
“Where are the girls?” asks third grader Grace Campbell when her teacher rolls out a poster of all the U.S. presidents. Frustrated by the lack of female faces in the White House, Grace decides she wants to be president and inspires a school election. But things prove harder than she thinks when the most popular boy in school runs against her. Through the throes of campaigning and pep rallies, Grace and her classmates discover what it takes to be the best candidate in this timely story based on the bestselling book
Review for Q City Metro 10/24/2024
“Grace for President” centers on a Black, third grader named Grace Campell who notices the absence of women as former U.S. presidents.
Grace asks: “Where are all the girls?” She then decided to run for class president.
Playwright Joan Cushing commissioned “Grace for President” in 2015. The play is based on the 2008 picture book by children’s author Kelly DiPucch and will run at the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte through Nov. 3.
The show follows Grace’s campaign journey as she encounters an opponent described by play director Alicia Tafoya as “a bit self-serving.” The opponent is Thomas Cobb, an eight-year-old white boy.