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maya in the cities
Two-act Dark Comedy / 6M 6W mixed race (Double Casting)
The set requires a red floor, projections, shadows, beautiful light, groovy sound and songs by Nina Hagen, Pearl Bailey, and others. Minimal is the operative word. (formerly The Whole Wide World) In this two-act odyssey, full of whimsical surprises and haunting moments, motherless Maya is guided by the stars, Josephine Baker and frontline memories or her Korean War Veteran father, as she travels through Europe before its landscape is altered by the fall of the Berlin Wall. With a tape recorder around her waist and a knapsack on her back, Maya sets out on a journey in which she discovers the high value of fine American English elocution on the European Human market; numerous references to the African and African American experience, experiences herself as an American (or human) for perhaps the first time and meets Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene, along the way. Her place of origin: New York, New York. Her destination: The Venice Film Festival. Stops in between: Dakar, Australia, Scotland, England, France, Holland, India, The Sudan, Korea and Japan, through the people she encounters. Hitchhiking at times, traveling by her two feet, bus, boat or Euro-rail, Maya discovers the dark side of traveling solo. The dialogue is written in English with a hint of German, French and Italian. ...she's a wave, she turned the tide... it’s all right it’s all right all right she moves in mysterious ways... — U2 Workshop Production: Trinity Reperatory Theater / Brown University Sternberg New Plays Festival (1997) Peter DuBois (Director); Reading: Yale Cabaret (1998) Wier Harmon (Director) |
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