shadow - a festival of playreadings

The Annex

February 12 - 15, 2009
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm

Free Admission

A festival of concert playreading celebrating Black History Month
Curated and directed by George Ferencz



Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30pm

THE GREEN BOOK
by Calvin Alexander Ramsey

Traveling becomes dangerous in Missouri in 1950 on the eve of a lecture by Dr. Dubois.



“since us colored folks cannot belong to triple A, my Green Book is our triple A when it comes to travel” Dwight Green to Langston Hughes.

Featuring Taeonna Ancrum, Spencer Cohen, Sheila Dabney, Cary Gant, Harry Mann, John-Andrew Morrison and Erwin E. A. Thomas & one Player To Be Named

 

Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30pm

PALMETTO
by Holli Harms

A play within a play about the Underground Railroad in 1849 and a runaway slave who wants to return to the plantation.



“So if you can railroad me to freedom then you railroad me back.” Ezzie

Featuring France Luce Benson, Milan Conner,  Helen Coxe, Maria Gabriele, Russell Jordan, Sharon McGruder, Valois Mickens, Nkosi Nkululeko, Alexis Slade and James Ware

 

Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7:30pm

IT MATTERS WHERE YOU'RE BURIED
by Beth Campbell

Brick Top, cabaret chanteuse and saloon keeper to the stars of the Lost Generation in Paris, gives an interview to Jim Comstock, editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly newspaper, in her bar in Heaven.


Aida "Bricktop" Smith

“Where ever I am, that’s Brick Top’s.  As a gin joint it ain’t bad.” Brick Top

featuring Lee Beebout,Sheila Dabney and Matthew Wrather

 

Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2:30pm

THE HAITIANS (how they got that way)
by Owa

An Epic Play Being a Dramatic Dialogue combining the faux Operatic Form, concerning the Sordid Characters, Racial Politics; and Unfortunate Hystorie of the Isle D’Ayti

Featuring Alex Alioto, Joane Cajuste, Cary Gant, John Andrew Morrison, Erwin E.A.Thomas, Jenne Vath, Chris Zorker & one Player To Be Named

 

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