Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wisdomof Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival
Performance time: 4:25-4:55Location: SOMA Room
Metreon 2nd Floor
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Seeother black theatre performances below,including Marvin X's Flowersfor the Trashman
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Marvin X's Reader's Theatre
presentsWisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival, Sunday, August 8, 2010
Accompanied by Rashidah Sabreen, guitar, vocals, RaynettaRayzettaand Linda Johnson, choreographers/dancers, Paradise, poet/reader,Mechelle LaChaux, singer/reader
The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/fables is at once both gutsy and crude, vulgar andrighteous, bodacious and common. Marvin X tares at your heart while pilingcrap on your head. He makes you want to kiss somebody, or kill him.One comes from this encounter with the surrealism that is both art andreality, imagery and observations. His parables tell stories meant toboth inform and reform, while his fables are remarkable in their almostreal, yet imaginary, paradoxes that confront the reader, and hismusings makes one wonder if it is live or Memorex.Marvin X gives us his blood, sweat and tears –each page a little moreof himself. Thanks my brother for the journey, the insanity, therighteousness, the vulgarity, and the taste of soul.
--Dr. Rodney D. Coates
Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland. --Ishmael Reed
He's the USA's Rumi! He’s got the humor of Pietri, thepolitics of Baraka,and the spiritual Muslim grounding that is totally new in English –-the ecstasy of Hafiz, the wisdom of Saadi. --Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Is Marvin X a parable or fable? Wedoubt a Marvin X exists. We double doubt there is a Plato Negro. --Amiri Baraka
San Francisco Theater Festival, Sunday August 8th, 2010 at Yerba BuenaGardens. Free Admission!
Marvin X's Associates Ayodele Nzingha, Lower Bottom Playaz, and Geoffrey Grier, SFRecovery Theatre, have productions in the festival. See schedulebelow.| 11:40 | 12:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Flowers by Marvin X– A circa 1960 Black Arts dramatic short that interrogatesthe silence between a father and son. |
| 12:20 | 12:50 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Queen – A view of the world from the fractured mind of Graffiti Queen, the selfproclaimed Dear Abby of the John. |
| 1:00 | 1:30 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Mama – A sharply drawn voyeuristic examination of HIV, family secrets and the threat of an imminent implosion in theJefferson household. |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | The Spot – Critically acclaimed story of young lovers trapped in urban society a’la West Side Story. |
| 2:20 | 2:50 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | Jet – A portrait of a nicotine addict and true story, explores the healthcaresystem from a consumer perspective. |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | The Dutchman – SF Recovery Theatre players put a new twist on this OBIE award winning play by Amiri Baraka. |
| 3:40 | 4:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | A Soldiers Play – Introducing SF Recovery Theatre’s BayView Playaz inthis classic murder mystery by Charles Fuller. |
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