Christine Melton's STILL LIFE GOES ON Gets Reading in Brooklyn
The Billie Holiday Theatre, in association with The Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, presents a reading of STIILL LIFE GOES ON by Christine Melton, directed by Count Stovall, on December 11, 2017 at 7 p.m. at the Billie Holiday Theater (1328 Fulton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY).
The cast features Jerome Preston Bates, LaVonda Elam, Mizan Nunes, Lisa Marie Jackson and Leland Gantt, as well as stage manager/narrator LaVonda Elam.
Time: Current anniversary of daughters death. Place: Buster's Night Club, an NYC village club with live music and singing.
Plot: Mother (Janine, 60) attempts to reunite with her singer daughter (Ronnie aka Veronique, 29-32) after 12 years at Buster's (54), who is a singer/pianist who still grieves the loss his daughter Clarissa (21) who overdosed. Buster is agoraphobic. His lifelong pal and caretaker is Lou (55). Everyone's a hustler: sex, drugs and jazz. The mother and daughter are both light and bright and could pass for white and are fluent in French.
Flyer Design by Count Paul Stovall
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