Written and directed by Emory University scholar/artist–in-resident, playwright, director and author, Paul Carter Harrison and with an original score by Olu Dara, Goreé Crossing is set in 1918 in the deep South at the end of Minstrelsy and World War 1. Goreé Island in the bay of Dakar, Senegal is the place where Africans were forcibly detained in dungeons prior to being packed into ships during the 19th-century slave trade. Goreé Crossing acts as a symbolic crossroads where Africa, the deep South, and the high-life of the urban world psychically entwine.