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

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