UP COMING PROJECTS
Performing "Don't Go Away"
with
Vishal Vaidya at La Ti DO
( written by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi)
THEATRICAL WORKS BY
DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI
ABSALOM
TAMAR, THE DAUGHTER OF KING DAVID,MUST OVERCOME PERSONAL TRADEDGY, A RELIGIOUS FUED, AND A FAMILY WHOSE'S LEGACY THEATERNS TO RIP THEM APART. BETRAYED BY HER HOUSE, HER BROTHER ABSALOM RISES TO MEET OUT RETIRBUTION, BUT TAMAR AND HE HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT THE TRUE MEANING OF JUSTICE.
BUTTERFLy:
JAMILA LADAEU AN OPERA SINGER, AND SOON TO BE STAR, IS SLATED TO BE THE FIRST TRANS WOMAN TO SING MADAME BUTTERFLY. A MOTHER WHO HERSELF IS KNOWN FOR TAKING DARING RISK, A LOVER WHO CHOOSES NOT TO LOVE HER, AND A FRIEND WHO CAN'T HELP BUT TO, ALL BECOME PAINTED ON THE FABRIC OF HER MIND AS THE GHOST OF MADAME BUTTERFLY COMES TO HAUNT A WOMAN OBESSED WITH HER STORY.
THE MOTHER AFRICA CYCLE
(THREE EPIC POEMS BY DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI)
JEZEBEL
ARIADNE
KLYTMNESTRA
THREE WORKS DEALING With COLONIZATION AND THE TERRIBLE EFFECT OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE ON INDIGENOUS CULTURES
JEZEBEL
AN OPERA, JEZEBEL DEALS WITH THE WATA PEOPLE AND THE STRIFE THAT COMES WITH LISTENING TO A MISSIONARY WHO APPEARS TO HAVE THEIR BEST INTEREST AT HEART YET IS SLOWLY LEADING THEM TO CIVIL WAR
ARIADNE
FOR LOVE, ARIADNE BETRAYS HER FAMILY SIDING A FOREIGN MAN AND HIS GODS. ABANDONED, ARIADNE MUST RISE ABOVE HER MISTAKES AND FIND NEW IDENTITY IN THE WAYS OF HER ANCESTORS.
KLYTMNESTRA
SET IN THE CEMETARY OF BLACK ART; THIS ONE WOMAN EPIC SLAM POEM DEALS WITH KLYTMNESTRA AS A PRIESTESS CONJURES THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD TO VINDICATE A MOTHER SLAIN BY HER OWN SON'S HAND.
photo credit; ASCENSION: Texas Isaiah, SERVICE TO THE SACRED: louie Ortiz Fronesca & Karen Posen. Klytmnestra: Pat Corbet.
An excerpt from
Klytmnestra:
An Epic Slam Poem
@ SpookyAction Theatre
(WORKSHOP)
