Studio Stage Theatre Presents THE MULATTO SAGA, 9/12
The theatrical production 'The Mulatto Saga' continues its run in Los Angeles on September 12 at Studio Stage Theatre in West Hollywood. Other LA show dates include October 10 and November 7.
Upstart film producer CJ Sailor joins Hollywood Filmmaker Charles Burnett ('To Sleep With Anger,' 'The Glass Shield') in bringing light to race relations in America through the one woman show that is performed by actress Juliette Fairley.
"This interracial topic is hot right now and Mulatto Saga is the only play out there dealing with the subject matter," says Sailor, whose brother and sister-in-law were ranked by Jet Magazine as one of Washington D.C.'s top political couples. Brother, Elroy Sailor is CEO of JC Watts Companies while wife, Angela Sailor is a former White House advisor.
"Everywere I go in America, I see interracial couples walking down the street holding hands. It's a no brainer that Mulatto Saga will breakthrough and eventually become a film or arrive on Broadway. We're getting in on the ground floor," Detroit-native CJ Sailor said in a phone interview from his home in Virginia. Sailor's producing partner is Lucienne Coppedge.
In addition to re-enacting poignant moments of her parent's rollercoaster marriage, Miss Fairley performs snippets of her unsuccessful search for lasting love.
"It's hard enough to get married in the first place but when you're bi-racial it's even more complicated because of the added layer of race. You can't please one parent without disappointing the other," she says.
The Mulatto Saga features Fairley's French mother reacting to her husband's Afro culture and their bi-racial daughter's boyfriends, including a C-list hip hop star with kinky hair, a Jamaican with a marijuana habit, a Frenchman with a penchant for threesomes, a Brad Pitt look a like who requires blond hair in his black girlfriends and an El DeBarge look-a-like who prefers men.
Tickets for the September 12 matinee performance at 3pm at Studio Stage Theater, 520 North Western at Melrose in West Hollywood, can be purchased by calling 1-800-838-3006 or at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Photo Credit: BWW-Staff
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