Staged Reading
Spotlight Reading: Boogie Woogie Landscapes
by Ntozake Shange | directed by Ilesa Duncan
Apr 08, 2019
Court’s Spotlight Reading Series aims to rediscover plays by writers of color largely missing from the American stage and absent from the traditional canon.
Monday April 8 at 6:30pm
Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave. (map)
Free. Limited seating.
From the acclaimed playwright of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf comes a choreopoem about one night of dreams and memories from a young, African American woman. A collage of dreamlike memories and poetic editorials, Boogie Woogie Landscapes is a funny, moving, and surprising piece of theatre from one of America’s most incisive poets/playwrights.
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