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The first solo performance piece I created for Pre-sent/Pres-ent was rise in December, 2008. From my responses to a questionnaire, a theme of a woman’s role emerged and I transformed those ideas into an 8-minute piece about my witnessing (as a child) my grandmother’s work as a domestic for a white family in the South. It is, in part, an exploration of the distance between my grandmother bearing eight children and my child-free existence – the hopes she had for me and all her…
Matter was originally developed as a 10-minute performance piece for Pre-sent/Pres-ent, a holiday show produced by Voices of the South and Project Motion in Memphis, TN. Eight artists were chosen annually to create a short piece based upon a gift received from the artistic director, Jerre Dye. The theme was Home for the Holidays and home has always been a troublesome thing to pin down. I am a military brat. I have had many homes. As the one constant home has been…
by Paul Zindel The Station Theatre We can neither choose the parents we are born to nor the soil they fashion for us to grow in. Rich earth does not necessarily promise rich yield no more or less than desolate earth guarantees barrenness. Outside factors play a role. Water. Sunlight. So here we have questionable soil with things existing in it. An embittered mother in a run-down unkempt home, two budding daughters soaking up water and reaching for light where…
Environment Matters was a series of arts-based civic dialogue workshops devoted to exploring the four elements (earth, water, air and fire) presented by Latrelle Bright. Through storytelling, music, movement, creative writing and spirited dialogue, visitors will examine each element from it basis in folklore to current events as well as its role in daily life. The activities will result in performable material that Bright and participants will shape into a short performance piece.
by Nilaja Sun University of Illinois Krannert Center for the Performing Arts A young teaching artist engages a rough and rowdy classroom of high school students in a production of "Our Country's Good" in the age of the No Child Left Behind Act. Smile Politely/Katie Baldwin Prosise Photo Credits: Eric Ponder [soliloquy id="533"] Director: Latrelle Bright Set Design: Joe C. Klug Lighting Design: Jack Horwitch Costume Design: Liz Rowe Sound Design: Yu-Yun Hsieh Props Master:…
by William Shakespeare. Rhodes College Spring 2009 [soliloquy id="547"]