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“The Meeting” by Jeff Stetson June 18 - 28, 2010 The Festival Playhouse, Arvada, CO A fictional account of a debate between Malcolm-X and Martin Luther King Jr. Directed by Reynelda Snell If the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Malcolm-X had met for an hour or so, what would they have found to say to one another? The Meeting probes what would have happened if Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had met before they were assassinated – just three years apart. This intriguing idea is portrayed as a dialog. A hotel room provides a compelling setting for these two prominent men of our recent history who changed both our nation and the world.
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“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange September 3 - 19, 2010 The Historic Shadow Theatre, Aurora, CO Directed by Reynelda Snell Choreographed by Lea Chapman
This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women. Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry. Premiered by the Henry Street Settlement, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and later on Broadway. "A triumphant event, filled with humor. Pure theatre."-New York Daily News
"A poignant, gripping, angry and beautiful work."-Time
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"The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler November 12 - 20, 2010 Crossroads Theater at Five Points, Denver, CO Directed by Reynelda Snell
An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it." Winner of the Obie Award. "If Ms. Ensler is the messiah heralding the second wave of feminism, and a lot of people think she is, it is partly because she's a brilliant comedian…The audience…was overwhelmingly adoring." —NY Times.
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"Waiting to be Invited" by S.M. Shephard-Massat RESCHEDULED: April 15 - 30, 2011 Dayton Street Theater 1468 Dayton Street, Aurora, CO It's the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. Four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a "whites only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store Their purpose is to "test" their newly acquired civil rights handed down by the Supreme Court outlawing segregation in eating establishments. This funny, touching play received the Kennedy Center Roger L. Stevens Award for New Playwrights and the Adrienne Kennedy Award for Most Promising Young Dramatist.
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“A Soldier's Play” by Charles H. Fuller February 11 - 27, 2011 Crossroads Theater at Five Points, Denver, CO
A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version--tracks the investigation of this murder. A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.
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