Reparations
Examining the secrets and traumas we carry in our bloodlines
Dates: Jan 8 Feb-2 Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
World Premiere by Darren Canady
Director: Jay O’Leary
Reparations
World Premiere by Darren Canady
Directed by JayO’Leary
Jan 8 – Feb 2, 2020 7:30 PM, Matinees 2pm (see below for details)
By examining the secrets and traumas we carry in our bloodlines, playwright Darren Canady urges us to decolonize and deconstruct the dominant narrative.
Rory’s life is looking like a classic Great Plains dead-end: a job she hates, a sick grandmother who depends on her, and dreams that just can’t seem to materialize. However, a new technology developed to help humans harness the power of their own blood to relive history promises to give Rory the chance to hit a major pay-day. Played out over three time periods, Rory’s quest to uncover and honor the truth of her family’s past has far-reaching effects she could have never imagined.
Location
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
104 17th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
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Dates
Jan 8 – Feb 2, 2020 7:30 PM, Matinees 2pm.
Every seat is “Radically Inclusive Pricing.
Inclusive Accessible Seating
Seating for our patrons with disabilities is FRONT ROW Center for all performances.
Patrons who cannot traverse stairs are also welcome to take a seat in the front row. Please note when you purchase your tickets if you would like to use Front Row seating.
Playwright Darren Canady urges us to decolonize and deconstruct the dominant narrative
SYNOPSIS: Oklahoma. The near future. A new technology developed to help humans harness the power of their own blood to relive their ancestral history promises to give Rory the chance to hit a major pay-day. Played out over three time periods, Rory’s quest to uncover and honor the truth of her family’s past has far-reaching effects she could have never imagined.
REPARATIONS has been developed through readings and workshops at The Playwrights Realm (New York, NY), Penumbra Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), and the Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO). The piece was also presented as part of Pork Filled Productions’ 2017 UNLEASHED Festival (Seattle, WA) which is where Darren first met Jay. The two have been inseparable ever since.
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Radical Inclusion Pricing [art-event id="19115D"]“…The work is new, exciting and timely and pushes all kinds of boundaries.” -Tim Lennon (LANGSTON)
Sound Theatre is Proud to Partner with LANGSTON as Producing Partner, and the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
Playwright and Director
World Premiere by Darren Canady
Darren Canady hails from Topeka, KS. His work has been produced at the Alliance Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Aurora Theater, Congo Square Theater, Horizon Theatre, London’s the Old Vic Theatre, M Ensemble, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, American Blues Theater, and others.
His awards include the Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, Chicago’s Black Excellence Award, the Black Theatre Alliance Award, and the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award. His work has been developed at numerous festivals including the O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwright’s Conference. His play You’re Invitedappeared in The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011.
His work has been seen or developed at the Quo Vadimus Arts’ ID America Festival, the Fremont Centre Theatre, Premiere Stages, the BE Company, Penumbra Theatre, and American Blues Theater. Darren is an alum of Carnegie Mellon University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Juilliard School. He is a current member of the Core Writers Program at the Playwrights’s Center and Midwest Dramatists Center. He is an artistic associate with American Blues Theater and Congo Square Theatre. He currently teaches playwriting at the University of Kansas.
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