The European premiere of the musical version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple is coming to the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year. The musical ran on Broadway from 2005 to 2008.
The story, set in the 1930s, concerns Celie, a black teenager, growing up through joy and despair, anguish and hope to discover the power of love and life in racially divided southern America.