AUGUST 6-7, 2008 @ 7PM: delta dandi by Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: Maisha Azadi*, Courtney D. Ellis, Denise Lock*,
and Andre St Clair Thompson
*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association Q & A with Lisa C. Moore (Publisher, RedBone Press) and Playwright Sharon Bridgforth on August 6th
Fire! New Play Festival
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
+ Artist Q&As follow all performances
delta dandi is a Conjure. A weave of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memory and song, delta dandi asks: How does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience?
delta dandi invokes the Transmigration of a Spirit's journey as she walks towards Transformation and Love.
Sharon Bridgforth on Blues, Langston Hughes, and Non-Linear Theatre
This interview is the property of and provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a nationwide initiative to record preserve the stories of everyday people. StoryCorps is a registered trademark of Sound Portraits Productions. This excerpt was selected and produced by Freedom Train Productions.
RedBone Press, Lambda Literary Award winning author of the bull-jean stories, Sharon Bridgforth is currently a playwright in residence at Freedom Train and touring The love conjure/blues Text Installation (RedBone Press http://loveconjureblues.com). A recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Award, Bridgforth is Anchor Artist for The Austin Project (produced by The Center for African and African American Studies, U.T. Austin). For more information go to: http://sharonbridgforth.com.
delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work in partnership with Center On Halsted and National Performance Network (NPN). Major contributors of NPN are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
