[Capdist-announce] Inaugural Season of Callaloo Theater Company at the African American Cultural Center

[Karen Christina Jones]

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October 7th-October 15th

Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities
by Anna Deavere Smith

directed by Karen Christina Jones


With Debra Beth Hendler Bercier
<https://www.facebook.com/debra.hendlerbercier>, Marquis Heath
<https://www.facebook.com/marquis.heath.16>, Caroline Lukasik
<https://www.facebook.com/caroline.lukasik.3>, Samara Miller, Jessica JJ
Paul <https://www.facebook.com/jessica.j.paul.14> and Lori M Porter
<https://www.facebook.com/lori.m.porter>.

Fires in the Mirror is a series of monologues excerpted from interviews. A
genre known as Verbatim Theatre, it chronicles a civic disturbance in the
New York neighborhood of Crown Heights in August 1991. In that racially
divided neighborhood, a car driven by a Jewish man veered onto a sidewalk
and killed a 7-year-old Caribbean-American boy who was learning to ride a
bicycle. The accident and the response of emergency medical personnel
sparked protests during which a Jewish student visiting from Australia was
stabbed on the street by a group of black youths. Days of rioting ensued,
exposing to national scrutiny the depth of the racial divisions in Crown
Heights. The rioting produced 190 injuries, 129 arrests, and an estimated
one million dollars in property damage. Through the words of 26 different
people, in 29 monologues, Smith explores how and why people signal their
identities, how they perceive and respond to people different from
themselves, and how barriers between groups can be breached.

Coming in 2017
March 3rd-March 11th

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
by Lanie Robertson

directed by Karen Christina Jones

With Chevell Edwards as Billie Holiday

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill recounts Billie Holiday's life story
through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in
Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will
leave them witnesses to one of the last performances of her lifetime.
Through her poignant voice and moving songs, one of the greatest jazz
singers of all-time shares her loves and her losses.
Karen Christina Jones
Artistic Director
Callaloo Theater Company
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