Black Women: State Of The Union Takes Flight

Oct 26, 2012
Skylight Theatre

Celebrating, and empowering, through works from some of the nations most artistically significant Black female voices, KTC's Skylight Theatre is providing a home for this unique five-week production. Featuring new plays, visual arts, and community events, collaborators have created this platform for encouraging Black women to self-identify as dynamic, expressive, and nurturing contributors to society.

"Standing on the shoulders of legendary writers such as Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin In The Sun - first Broadway play written by a black woman) and Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf-experimental choreopoem), Black Women: State Of The Union-Taking Flight takes a refreshing and new look at life and the current topics that speak to where we are, and where we aim to be" - says Director Nataki Garrett

Offerings will include Sigrid Gilmer's Simulacra, which pokes fun at the representations of Black women in recent feature films; Lisa B. Thompson's I Don't Want to Be, about the ties of survival that strengthen the mothers of innocent crime victims; Kellie Dantzler' Evolutionary takes a look at a prominent Civil Rights activist mother giving deathbed advise on the need for humor; Tanya Alexander-Henderson's Ritual is a poetic inspirational meditation; and Penelope Lowder's The Follicle Prison War, an hilarious parody about notions of beauty and hair weaves set in the future.