Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute/Cultural Center Presents A CHILDREN'S PLAY 8/28

By: Aug. 18, 2010
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

Freelance director and playwright Christopher-Rashee' Stevenson's newest black comedy "A Children's Play" opens at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute/Cultural Center and we are instantly thrust into a disturbingly familiar and unfamiliar domestic exploration of wealth, sex, and power. The piece concerns Mother, Father, and Grandmother, a family of the "upper class" set in an unnamed place. The family invites a young woman to their home for dinner with the prospects of moving her in with her husband and new child. What she finds lurking beneath her three hosts smiles becomes something altogether more sinister and savage by the play's strange finale. A nightmarish satire interweaving music, wordplay, and deadly power games.

Christopher-Rashee' Stevenson's freelance work has been active since 2007. Other works including Othello & Iago, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Way Of Rain, [Othello, The Wasteland, and The Peasants in NY]. And most recently August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" at Read Street Books. He helms his experimental theater troupe Theatre of War as well as SOUL Theater Ensemble with fellow actress Shayla Simmons.

"A Children's Play" features Lynae Pindell, Marcus Downer, Sandra J. Meekins, and Shayla Simmons. August 28 at 8PM Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute/Cultural Center. $5 Admission

 


Play Broadway Games

The Broadway Match-UpTest and expand your Broadway knowledge with our new game - The Broadway Match-Up! How well do you know your Broadway casting trivia? The Broadway ScramblePlay the Daily Game, explore current shows, and delve into past decades like the 2000s, 80s, and the Golden Age. Challenge your friends and see where you rank!
Tony Awards TriviaHow well do you know your Tony Awards history? Take our never-ending quiz of nominations and winner history and challenge your friends. Broadway World GameCan you beat your friends? Play today’s daily Broadway word game, featuring a new theatrically inspired word or phrase every day!

 



Videos