Broken Promises de Frankie Berry Wise

Broken Promises

Frankie Berry Wise

III Jeff N Carden

Marshalette Rolanda Wise

"Broken Promises" is a stage play based on the main characters from the novel "Breaking the Chain" written by Frankie Berry Wise. It centers on the Jackson family who are poor mulattoes struggling through many obstacles such as poverty, homosexuality, molestation, and murder. The main matriarch, Sarah Jackson, was abandoned by her white mother and given to a black family that abused her. Around the age of eleven, she was again ushered off to live with an older white man who fathered her four children-John, Cleo, Lilly, and Rose. Sarah is determined for her family to rise above the chains of misery that bind them. When her four children fail to graduate from high school or go to college, she turns her hopes onto her granddaughter, Iris. Will Iris be the one to bring them out of poverty? Or will her dreams also fall through the cracks? Read the cast of characters, plots, settings, and dialogues as the Jackson family journey through acts and scenes of their hopes, dreams, and broken promises.

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Frankie Berry Wise is a resident of Tuskegee, Alabama. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, award-winning cook, part-time actress, animal-rights advocate, and avid reader and writer of fiction. Frankie was born and raised in rural Franklin, Georgia where she was provided with the first-hand and insightful knowledge that influences many of her literary works. She is a proud product of the original Mary Hines Johnson Consolidated School that sprung from the original Ebenezer Church School. These schools were the brainchild of Frankie's aunt, Mary Hines Johnson, who was the founder of the first school for black children in Heard County. Frankie was among one of the students, graduating Valedictorian of her senior class. Frankie studied Art History at Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University. She was also an Art Consultant and Educational Advisor for the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program. She loves acting and has had roles in various plays, commercials, and movies- appearing as an extra in The Long Walk Home and Blue Sky. Frankie Berry Wise is the author of Breaking the Chain, Exit, and Broken Promises.