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Now in its ELEVENTH YEAR this play has grown from a grass-roots, low budget show to a full-on production. As they say,
everything starts somewhere!
The calibur of this show is ever increasing and we hope to take this show on the road! Thank you for your ongoing support
of our work as we continue to strive for excellence and beyond.
MAY 7-9, 2009 7:15PM
Lila G. Fredericks Middle School
270 Columbia Road Dorchester, MA
Tickets:
$15 adult, $10 under age 12 or over age 62
Contact 617-238-2460 for group rates
Tickets at A Nubian Notion, Dudley Square and World of Curls, 493A Blue Hill Avenue
Click here to see our poster!
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The Harlem Renaissance Revisited is a play about Negro artisans during the Renaissance Period. It is during this time period
that many Negro, because of Jim Crow laws, sought countries in Europe where racism would not interfere with their artistic
developments.
At the same time, there were other leading Negro artists that remained in the United States, with many of them working
and residing in Harlem, the Black metropolis of New York City.
A strong patron of Negro Art, and very successful businesswoman, was Madame CJ Walker. She did not believe that Langston
Hughes or any other Negro artist should leave the country where their forefathers were slaves, and she helped in an enormous
way to build.
Madame Walker decides to have a party at "Evelyn's Delight," a hang place in Harlem for Langston Hughes, who
has returned to New York after some success in Europe as a writer. She wants to use this party of welcome to say, "Stay
home." She has invited many other artist friends of Langston's to attend the party.
POST-SHOW WRITEUP #2, June 2005
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| We start in Africa... |
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| Ruby as the Bag Lady |
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| "You think you know your history? I know MYYYY history!" |
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| Waiting for Mme. CJ Walker to arrive |
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| A young Bojangles shows us his stuff |
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| Sele'fana Kumau as Billie Holliday |
| "Lift ev'ry voice&sing, til Earth&Heaven ring..." |
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| "...Let out rejoicing rise high as the list'ning skies, let it resound till victory is won!" |
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