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September Play: Spell #7
ETC Discovers: Spell #7
Each month, we’ll highlight a play & writer from our last list –– and we’re delighted to bring you…
Spell #7
by Ntozake Shange
If you’re looking for an ensemble-lead choreopoem that explores the Black experience in the entertainment industry…
Hear it in NYC!
The Acting Company partners with us next month for a reading of Spell #7, as part of their Louanna O. Carlin & John McDonald Reading Series!
Join us Monday, October 21st at The Public Theater (single tickets available soon)!
Ntozake Shange
(1948-2018) moved to St. Louis, MO, soon after the Brown v. Board ruling, and her experience as the first Black student in her class heavily influenced her work. Equally influential were her supportive parents: to support their daughters’ artistic education, they befriended the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Josephine Baker. Shange taught Humanities, Women’s Studies, and Afro-American Studies at California colleges. Her most famous work, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, brought her fame during its two years on Broadway, and was adapted into a feature film.
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Hear more about the play, the writer, and why we love it on this month’s episode of This Is A Classic! and hosted by curators Shannon Corenthin and Skye Pagon, and with a scene by Terra Chaney!
Pssst… SAVE THE DATE!
We’re going to be announcing our 2024 List at an event before the reading – and launching it the next day! Toast with us to our 14 new list playwrights!
Join us: Monday, October 21st @ 6pm
Kingston Hall (149 2nd Ave, NYC)
Expand the Canon is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program), and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
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