Program Flyer: The Black Rep Presents: Porch Lies
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HEC-TV 2007-08 Honorable Mention
Helen Headrick
utilization@hectv.org
8390 Delmar Blvd
Suite 211
St Louis, MO 63124
United States
Phone: (314) 432-3476
Education: Grade(s): 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Join us live from the rehearsal space of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company to enjoy excerpts from their touring performance of Porch Lies, adapted by Linda Kennedy from Patricia McKissick’s endearing book. Meet the actors and director who bring the story to life. View a performance of scenes from the show. Ask your questions of what it means to “act a part.” How do the actors prepare? How do they create a character? What does the director do? What’s it like to stage a touring production in a variety of different places? Participants will meet actors, director, and designers to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. Ask your questions of actors, directors and designers who are part of America’s largest professional African-American theatre company.
About the Play
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this sequel to a Newberry Honor-winning anthology is filled with bad characters who know how to charm. It takes us back to McKissick’s own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch. . . to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows. . . to the ten entertaining tales. In “The Best Lie Ever Told,” meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar’s Contest. In “Aunt Gran and the Outlaws,” watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in “Cake Norris Lives On,” meet a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
60 minutes
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4/14/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4/14/2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Program Flyer: The Black Rep Presents: The Strong Men
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Education: Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Join us live from the rehearsal space of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company to enjoy excerpts from their touring performance of The Strong Men, a choreo-poem adapted by Ron Himes from Sterling A. Brown’s poem and other poems by African-American authors. Meet the actors and director who bring the story to life. View a performance of scenes from the show. Ask your questions of what it means to “act a part.” How do the actors prepare? How do they create a character? What does the director do? What’s it like to stage a touring production in a variety of different places? Participants will meet actors, director, and designers to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. Ask your questions of actors, directors and designers who are part of America’s largest professional African-American theatre company.
About the Production
This choreo-poem displays the powerful voices and delicate humor of African-Americans who have made major contributions to American history. The Black Rep brings to vivid life some of the verses, which show how poetry can be spoken, sung and danced, and how poetry can be a window to the self and to our world. Selected poems include “The Creation,” “We Wear the Mask,” “Dedication to Fathers,” “A Cry from a Black Man,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Strong Men.”
60 minutes
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4/21/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4/21/2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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