Thu, Feb 25 – Sun, Mar 21 | 8pm – 10pm | $25 – $15 (Thursdays are Pay-What-You-Can)
From Intersection’s acclaimed resident theatre company Campo Santo and The Living Word Project (the resident theater company of Youth Speaks) comes the world premiere of Mirrors In Every Corner, written by emerging playwright Chinaka Hodge. This genre breaking and strikingly original theatre work chronicles an Oakland-based African American family alternately in the present and in 1988 after the mother gives birth to a Caucasian baby. Examining how race is lived in and through the body, this world premiere play attempts to unearth the reality and the fictive construction of race – what makes someone black, what is blackness, what is family, and what is lineage- as a family grapples with the issues of race and identity in contemporary America. The play is directed by performance innovator and the Living Word Project’s Artistic Director Marc Bamuthi Joseph; and features Daveed Diggs, Margo Hall, Dwight Huntsman and Traci Tolmaire; with a score by composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire;and a dual visual art installation and scenic design by artist Evan Bissell; and a collaborative team of Alejandro Acosta, Ray Diaz, Ben Fisher, Tanya Orellana, Joan Osato, Kate Purnell,and Ricky Saenz.
LOCATION
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
MORE INFORMATION
www.theintersection.org
(415) 626-2787 x109
LINKS
www.ambroseakinmusire.com
February 10, 2010
Innovators: Stepping Up
October 1, 2007 – By Derk Richardson, Smithsonian.com
Even as he travels the world, dancer and hip-hopper Marc Bamuthi Joseph has stayed close to his musical roots.
Chinaka Hodge performs at Spoken City, October 10th, 2006
January 29, 2010
Chinaka Hodge performs at Spoken City, October 10th, 2006
Chinaka Hodge Website: FOR GIRLS WITH HIPS. AND ALLIES WITH OR WITHOUT THEM.
January 29, 2010
Chinaka Hodge’s Official Website
IN THE NEWS
White Girl in the Mirror
February 17, 2010 – Rachel Swan, East Bay Express
