Celebrating, and empowering, through works from some of the nations most artistically significant Black female voices, KTC’s Skylight Theatre, 1816 N. Vermont in Los Angeles, is providing a home for this unique world premiere, five-week production. Featuring new plays, visual arts, and community events, collaborators have created this platform for encouraging Black women to self-identify as dynamic, expressive, and nurturing contributors to society.
Offerings will include Sigrid Gilmer’s Simulacra, which pokes fun at the representations of Black women in recent feature films; Lisa B. Thompson’s I Don’t Want to Be, about the ties of survival that strengthen the mothers of innocent crime victims; Kellie Dantzler’ Evolutionary takes a look at a prominent Civil Rights activist mother giving deathbed advise on the need for humor; Tanya Alexander-Henderson’s Ritual is a poetic inspirational meditation; and Penelope Lowder’s The Follicle Prison War, an hilarious parody about notions of beauty and hair weaves set in the future.
BLACK WOMEN: STATE OF THE UNION-Taking Flight opens October 27, 2012 and runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 3pm through November 18, 2012.
For tickets [$17-$25 ($15-$17 Senior/Student discount)] and information: www.ktctickets.com
