Thursday, October 28, 2010
Black Plays at Eastside Arts
playwrights
Marvin X
Opal Palmer Adisa
Ayodele
Nzingha,
producer,
director,
actress
Two Black Plays at Eastside Arts Alliance
We are happy to announce two black plays will be performed at EastsideArts Alliance: Opal Palmer Adisa's Bathroom Graffiti Queen and MarvinX's classic Flowers for the Trashman. The plays are produced anddirected by Ayodele Nzingha, founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz of WestOakland. Ayodele portrays the Queen in this one-woman production thatstole the show at the recent San Francisco Theatre Festival at YerbaBuena Center.
Flowers for the Trashman is Marvin X's first play,produced in 1965 by the drama department at San Francisco StateUniversity while he was an undergrad. It is a timeless story of thefather-son relationship. It is a classic of the Black Arts Movement andwas published in Black Fire, the anthology of BAM, edited by Larry Nealand Amiri Baraka, 1968.
These two plays will provide an eveningof powerful theatre by two of the Bay Area's greatest writers, OpalPalmer and Marvin X. Ayodele's role will give the audience a chance tosee a great actress deliver a high quality performance. The youngbrothers in Trashman are equally skilled after performing the play forsome time. It is refreshing to see young men doing something positive.
The Eastside Arts Alliance is located at 23rd and International Blvd., Oakland. Dates: November 19.20,21, donation $5.00. 8pm.
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