January 6- 23, 2005
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30 pm
Sunday 9 - 7:30pm
Sunday 16 and 23 - 2:30pm & 7:30pm
No Show on Wed. January 5
Talking Band
Writer & Director: Paul Zimet
Composer: Ellen Maddow
Box office 212.475.7710
Belize
is a new musical-theater work by Paul Zimet (writer and director), Ellen
Maddow (composer) and The Talking Band (www.talkingband.org).
In recent seasons at La MaMa, Maddow and Zimet have created the acclaimed
productions of Star Messengers and Painted Snake in a Painted Chair (winner
of thirteen 2003 OBIE awards). Belize, set in Central America and London
in the 18th century, is a love story shaped by history and politics. Based
on the true story of Edward Despard, an Irish-born Colonel in the British
Army and Catherine Despard, an African-American woman who became his wife,
the historical/hallucinatory mix of characters includes William Blake, Lord
Horatio Nelson, and choruses of Black Mummers and the White Boys of Coolrain.
