Barber Shop Chronicles: Man Talk in a Man’s World
Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles, his first full-length play, was a smash-hit when it opened in London in 2017. It was co-commissioned by the National Theatre and Fuel, an organization which works with new artists to present unusual plays that will both appeal to today’s audiences and introduce live theatre to those who have not experienced it.
Ellams who was born in Nigeria and moved to Great Britain as a young boy returned to Africa to research Barber Shop Chronicles. He visited barber shops in Lagos, Nigeria; Kampala, Uganda; Accra, Ghana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Harare, Zimbabwe recording conversations to help develop his play which deals with black masculinity in today’s world. A barber shop in London, where Ellams resides, appears after each African scene. …
Breath and Imagination: The Rediscovery of Roland Hayes
Breath and Imagination is a musical, composed and written by Daniel Beaty, largely based on the life of Roland Hayes, the first African American to achieve international fame on the concert stage. Born in Georgia in 1887 on a plantation where his mother had been a slave, he grew up in poverty. After his father’s untimely death, Hayes left school to help support his mother, Angel Mo’ (short for Angel Mother). What set Roland Hayes apart was his beautiful tenor voice. …
Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre Live Jan. 19
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| Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war. | ||||||
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Ménoires d’îles, d’Ina Césaire
— Par Selim Lander —
Ina Césaire, née en 1942, quatrième enfant d’Aimé et Suzanne Césaire, est connue en dehors de ses œuvres littéraires pour ses travaux ethnographiques sur la Martinique. Mémoires d’îles peut être considérée comme un sous-produit de ces derniers, tant l’auteur s’y entend à faire vivre des personnages plus vrais que nature, ici deux vieilles femmes nées à la fin du XIXe siècle, avec leur préjugés, leurs obsessions, leurs tics de langage. …
Wet: A dacamented journey: living as an undocumented immigrant.
Alex Alpharaoh has brought WET: A DACAmented Journey, his moving, comic, and political one-man show, to ArtsEmerson in Boston at the end of his first cross-country tour. This autobiographical piece could not be more timely given the strong animosity against Latinos, particularly the poor, that exists in the Trump administration. The work, directed by Brisa Areli Muños, was first enacted in 2017 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles where it was highly successful. The Los Angeles Drama Circle nominated WET for best play and awarded Alpharaoh the prize for best solo performance. …
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B=Notes de travail….en cours…!!!
le Groupe Grrrr sous la direction de Susana Lastreto est profondément marqué par le théâtre de Lecoq, par les travaux de Peter Brook et les créations qui placent l,acteur au centre de l’événement. voici ce qui frappe le spectateur du premier coup, surtout dans la petite espace de l’Atalante câchée derrier le théâtre de l’Atelier qui nous projette tous dans cette intimité joyeuse. …
Festival des Francophonies en Limousin. International francophone theatre in all its diversity.
This new international festival in Limoges created in 1984 by Pierre DeBauche after the Avignon Festival refused to accept a production of Shakespeare proposed by Martinique, put in place a new relationship with international Francophone theatre. One could say that Aimé Césaire’s first decision in Martinique, to create the Théâtre de la Soif nouvelle in 1982, giving voice to the Negritude in companies around the world, gave a serious impetus to the creation of the festival in Limoges.
New Director of the Festival in Limoges dans Actu, Limoges, Théâtre /par Dossier de presse
Monique Blin became the director of the new Festival in France with the support of director Patrick Le Muff who returned again this year (2018) to present a play by Nathalie Sarraute- Pour un oui ou un non, in a production with a creole-speaking cast of mixed ethnicity from Martinique, the sign that times have certainly changed. …
Blue Kettle and Here We Go: A First Rate Revival of Two of Caryl Churchill’s Plays
Blue Kettle Photo Evgenia Eliseeva
The Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare Company began life as a summer program over twenty years ago when they began performing free outdoor Shakespearean events on the Boston Common. In 2013, the company broadened their productions and extended their season when they were invited to become Babson College’s Theatre in Residence. Under the title Universe Rushing Apart, the company is currently presenting two Caryl Churchill one-acts: Blue Kettle, first performed in 1997 and Here We Go, which débuted at the National Theatre in London in 2015. …
“Au plus noir de la nuit”: de la lumière à l’ombre
D’André Brink, je garde le souvenir ému d’une soirée au Grand Carbet de Fort-de-France, où il assista en compagnie de la réalisatrice Euzhan Palzy à la projection du film « Une saison blanche et sèche » qu’elle avait, avec l’autorisation de son auteur, adapté du roman éponyme. Aujourd’hui, l’Afrique du Sud nous revient en plein cœur, sur la scène de Tropiques-Atrium, par la grâce du spectacle « Au plus noir de la nuit » que le metteur en scène Nelson-Rafaell Madel nous apporte, après avoir connu le succès au Théâtre de la Tempête, à Paris. Une représentation en direction des scolaires, deux seulement en direction du public, cela semble hélas bien peu. …