HOODOO LOVE
By Katori Hall
Directed by Malika Oyetimein
July 13- 30, 2017
Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory
Presented in Collaboration with the Hansberry Project
– Seattle premiere of sensational young playwright Katori Hall’s (The Mountaintop, Hurt Village) first play about Blues music and Black life in her native Memphis Tennessee during the 1930s.
Tickets: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11016
7/14/17 HANSBERRY PROJECT NIGHT: • tickets $20 • http://bit.ly/hoodoolove • a celebration, talkback and reception hosted by The Hansberry Project’s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Valerie Curtis-Newton with the evening’s performance proceeds of Hoodoo Love going to The Hansberry Project.
7/19/17 Chic Streetman FREE Blues Concert tickets bit.ly/chicstreetmanconcert” 
Content Warning” message=”Hoodoo Love is recommended for MATURE AUDIENCES 16 and up, due to language, nudity, sexual situations and sexual violence.”
Hoodoo Love
Young Toulou has run away from the cotton fields of Mississippi to big city Memphis to make it as a blues singer. When she falls in love with a rambling bluesman, Ace of Spades, she gives into the suggestions of the local madam, Candylady, and conjures up a hoodoo trick to make him fall in love with her back. When her brother Jib, a born-again Christian missionary, arrives in town, Toulou is forced to confront all that she was running away from, and a chain of events with devastating consequences is set in motion.
The first of Katori Hall’s ‘Memphis Plays’, Hoodoo Love is set during the Great Depression, when the memory of slavery, and the slave belief in hoodoo folk magic, is still very much alive. With original music and lyrics by Katori Hall, the play was first produced by Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City in 2007.
Playwright Katori Hall
Katori Hall is from Memphis, Tennessee. Her play The Mountaintop was first produced to great acclaim at Theatre503, London, in June 2009, and received a transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, London, the following month. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010, and opened in Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York City, in October 2011. Her other plays include Hurt Village(Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, BRIC Studio, 2007), Hoodoo Love(Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 2007), Remembrance (Women’s Project/World Financial Center site-specific work, 2007), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, The Schomburg Centre, New York, 2008), WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, The Hope Well and Pussy Valley. Her numerous awards include the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, a 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, a residency at the Royal Court Theatre in 2006, and the 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award.
Director Malika Oyetimein
Malika has served as Artistic Director of the Philadelphia based Ademide Theatre Ensemble and was a member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater. In Seattle, she was featured in City Art Magazine’s 2016 Future List. Under her direction, Intiman Theatre’s “Bootycandy” was nominated for a 2015 Gregory Award for Best Play. Select directing credits: Milk Like Sugar(Artswest Playhouse and Gallery) Bootycandy (Intiman Theatre Festival) Goin’ Someplace Special (Book-It Theatre Co.) Fucking A, Force Continuum (University of Washington) Hoodoo Love (Yancy Girl Productions & Ademide Theatre Ensemble), Young Voices (InterAct Theatre Co. & Philadelphia Young Playwrights), and Topdog/Underdog(GoKash Productions). Select Assistant Director credits: The Bitter Game (Public Theatre/Under the Radar festival).Three Penny Opera, Blue Door (Arden Theatre Co.), and A View from the Bridge (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). As a professional teaching artist, Malika has worked with: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Arden Theatre Co., Mural Arts: Project Home, & Theatre Horizon’s Autism Drama Program.
Music Director- Chic Streetman
SOUND THEATRE COMPANY’S next blues driven production, HOODOO LOVE is fortunate to have musician and blues man, Chic Street Man as its music director.
Chic Street Man • has performed at many venues including the Paleo, the Montreux and Bern Jazz Festivals in Switzerland, the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, and the UN Human Rights Center in Geneva.