“Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” is returning to Broadway after 62 years.
Davos credited family together as the main reason his father wrote himself and Dee into the production. “I think it was a way for the family to stick together in their professional capacity. You see, Mom and Dad valued the family more than they did just running off on some quick junket. Of course, they had to go on the road to make money, but it was an opportunity for them to work together and to grow together.
Day shared a surprising fact about her father: “Dad didn’t think of himself as an actor—he did it by necessity; he was a writer. Mom was 100% an actor. At the center of their relationship and the center of our family was the struggle for civil rights and human rights, and certainly our people and the love of our people and the need to bring our stories forward, be it from the cotton patch or wherever.
David added, “Another little piece of legacy is that Dad, in this play, mentioned the importance of voting and the fact that he brought up the Constitution, which is the crux of much news today and 2016 in particular. The whole strategy of the Civil Rights Movement had to do with making America recognize that the Constitution is for all Americans. With the Black Power movement, things changed, things evolved. I think that play was part of the legacy of important change and growth.
Day, Muhammad, and Davis explained aspects of their past that I’m sure are not widely known. “Dad had an encyclopedic memory and I truly think that was his genius,” Day said. “He didn’t have books—he couldn’t afford them, so he would visit the Library of Congress and he would recite things; these poems and so many things. He would pull everything in and help us gain perspective on who and why, and who and when, and that things we thought were new were not new.
“I remember when people would come over and we didn’t have furniture and people would sit on boxes. The piano was in the basement; they’d be singing down there. Piano was in the living room; there’d be singing there, doing lines, studying scripts, comparing notes. They’d bring their kids over—the Poitiers could come, W.E.B. Dubois, and Dad would explain who they were.”
They each are carrying on their parents’ work and instilling the spirit of their parents in the seven children they have between them.
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