...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi

...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a 2004 play by Marcus Gardley.

The play is a re-imagining of the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter.

[1] ...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is set on the banks of the Mississippi River during the Civil War.

A lynched African-American man named Damascus is immediately resurrected as a woman named Demeter, who only has three days to find her daughter Po'em and transmit her song before she has to return to death.

[2] The play is based on the story of Persephone and her mother, the goddess of the harvest Demeter.