CROPT
Written by Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Directed by Mikael Burke
Dramaturgy by Hannah Hopkins
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Rough Cut Reading: December 8th, 2020 @ 7:30pm | youtube.com/JackalopeTheatre
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Paper’s Edge Presentation: April 16th & 17th, 2021 @ 7:30pm | Reserve for Free
SYNOPSIS:
"If that's not a challenge, you haven't been listening."
Moving from fig orchards to the ombre lakes of national parks to data server farms in Georgia, cropt is a connective triptych that investigates the systematic violence inherent in the millennial bourgeois life that some of us have inherited and others of us have grown towards. Meet Magda (an ex-farm laborer), Victor (her mentor), Shay, (a vanlife podcaster), Ami, (an It Girl influencer), and Reggi, (keeper of the data centers), as all five grapple with how to make change in a system of unforgiving dimensions.
PRETTY SHAHID
(FORMERLY TITLED "BEING JULIA ROBERTS")
Written by Omer Abbas Salem
Directed by Sophiyaa Nayar
Dramaturgy by Nadya Naumaan
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Rough Cut Reading: December 10th, 2020 @ 7:30pm | youtube.com/JackalopeTheatre
Paper’s Edge Presentation: April 30th & May 1st, 2021 @ 7:30pm | youtube.com/JackalopeTheatre
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SYNOPSIS:
As an immigrant, if you had the chance to forget everything about your cultured past and start new as an American, would you? What if you got the voice, the privilege, and "freedom" too? Pretty Shahid examines assimilation and which knots we choose to untie in the quest for American selves in this magical 9/11 romantic comedy.
MICHAEL JACKSON
AND THE DEVIL'S BOOK/
WHITNEY HOUSTON AND THE DEVIL'S BOOK
Written by Terry Guest
Directed by Wardell Julius Clark
Dramaturgy by Jared Bellot
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Rough Cut Reading: December 15th, 2020 @ 7:30pm | youtube.com/JackalopeTheatre
Paper’s Edge Presentation: May 14th & 15th, 2021 @ 7:30pm | youtube.com/JackalopeTheatre
featuring: Adia Alli, Renee Lockett, Marcus D. Moore, Victor Musoni, Adhana Reid, Donovan Sessions, Christopher Wayland, and Netta Walker
SYNOPSIS:
Would you sign over your life for immortality? The Devil’s Book Plays are macabre fantasias that use the myth of The King of Pop and The Voice to explore Black Celebrity, madness, greed, murder and The American Dream. A multitude of Black superstars (Including OJ Simpson, Billie Holiday, Michael Jordan, Diana Ross, James Brown etc) appear out of the shadows to tell the story of what happens to a person who becomes a God.