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Purlie Victorious (A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch) is a three-act comedic stage play written by American actor Ossie Davis. The play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preacher returning to his hometown in rural Georgia , to save his small hometown church. [ 1 ]
Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South.Its focus is on the dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation.
When he found it necessary to play a Pullman porter or a butler, he played those characters realistically, not as a caricature. In 1961, he wrote and starred in the Broadway play Purlie Victorious, a farce satirizing the confederate south. Davis portrayed the title character Purlie Victorious Judson, acting opposite Ruby Dee and Alan Alda.
His performances—including his recent Broadway run in Purlie Victorious—are palpable. It feels like a matter of life or death, the way he gives his absolute all to every character.
As Town & Country 's 10th annual Philanthropy Summit is underway today at Hearst Tower, Leslie Odom Jr., star of screen and stage and current producer of Purlie Victorious on Broadway, joined a ...
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
He returned to Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), Saint Joan (1993), Pygmalion (2007), Girl from the North Country (2020), and Purlie Victorious (2023). He made his feature film debut in the comedy Starting Over (1979).
Leslie Odom Jr. isn’t just the star of the new, critically acclaimed Broadway revival of “Purlie Victorious.” He’s also one of its producers. The combination is really working for him.