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2007-2008 A Day of Absence – Douglas Turner WardDirected by Denise J. Hart October 2-6, 10-13, 2007 Environmental Theatre Space Tickets: $7.50; $12.50 A satire about an imaginary Southern town where all the black people have suddenly disappeared. The only ones left are sick and lying in hospital beds, refusing to get well. Infants are crying because they are being tended to by strange parents. The Mayor pleads for the President, Governor, and the NAACP to send him "a jackpot of jigaboos." On a nationwide radio network he calls on the blacks, wherever they are, to come back. He shows them the cloths with which they wash cars and the brushes with which they shine shoes as sentimental reminders of the goodies that await them. In the end the blacks begin to reappear, as mysteriously as they had vanished, and the white community, sobered by what has transpired, breathes a sigh of relief at the return of the rather uneasy status quo. What will happen next is left unsaid, but the suggestion is strong that things will never quite be the same again. Gum – Karen Hartman Directed by Kim James Bey November 6-10, 2007 Environmental Theatre Space Tickets: $7.50; $12.50 In this violent fairy tale, two cloistered sisters discover new appetites. GUM takes place in a fictional fundamentalist country, inspired by a true scandal in which young Egyptian women were rumored to have had sex with boys in cars. The explanation? Tainted gum, part of a foreign plot to undermine the virtue of traditional girls. Too outrageous to be real, too terrifying to be anything else, GUM depicts the glee and the horror of sexual awakening in a fiercely restrictive culture. Explicit sexual content. Working – Stephen Schwartz Directed by Michael Bobbitt March 4-8, 12-15, 2008 Ira Aldridge Theater Tickets: $8.00; $15.00 ‘Working’ concerns the hopes, dreams, joys and concerns of the average working American. In the course of one twenty-four hour workday, the audience meets and hears stories of various workers including the schoolteacher, the parking lot attendant, the waitress, the mill worker, the mason, the trucker, the fireman and the housewife.
2008 SPRING DANCE CONCERT DANCE... a timeless tradition, speaks the voices of our people… It parallels the circle of our culture: the continuum of our roots as People of African Descent. It mirrors from generation to generation our power and strength in politics: where we stand, what we believe, and our strong will to do. It signifies the foundation and wisdom of family and life. Dance is our language, speaking the voices of our people, our culture.
Each choreographer communicates a distinctive voice and style shaped and
molded
Ira Aldridge Theater April 19—21, 2008 Tickets: $15.00—$25.00
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