{"id":857,"date":"2013-08-14T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/?page_id=857"},"modified":"2022-02-22T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:20:57","slug":"upcoming-productions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/productions\/upcoming-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2021\/07\/zooman399x316.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN<\/strong>\u00a0written by Charles Fuller and directed by Dr. Mark Henderson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ZOOMAN<\/strong>\u00a0is a Black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorizes his community without regard for color. His most recent crime is the killing of a 12 year-old Black girl on a street filled with witnesses, all of whom are afraid to talk. The dead girl&#8217;s bereaved father posts a sign accusing the entire community of cowardice in the face of the ever escalating violence.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Disclaimer: This Play Contains Strong Language<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRODUCTION RUN:<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 7, 8, 9, 11, 2021 at 7:00 PM<br \/>\nOctober 8, 2021 at 10:00 AM (Special School Performance)<br \/>\nOctober 10, 2021 at 2:00 PM (Matinee)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2021\/07\/for-colord-girls2.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"465\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf<\/strong>\u00a0written by Ntozake Shange and directed by Yolanda Williams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR COLORED GIRLS\u00a0<\/strong>tells the stories of seven Black women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexiest society. As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRODUCTION RUN:<\/strong><br \/>\nNovember 11, 12, 13, 15, 2021 at 7:00 PM<br \/>\nNovember 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM (Special School Performance)<br \/>\nNovember 14, 2021 at 3:00 PM (Matinee)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2022\/02\/afro-angel-2-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Afro Angel<\/strong>\u00a0written and directed by Prince Duren.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where culture is replaced by the normalcy of gentrification,\u00a0<strong>AFRO ANGEL<\/strong>\u00a0is a modern day urban love story between two individuals from different sides of the &#8216;proverbial&#8217; tracks, both trying to connect to something deeper than themselves, but not knowing that their connection lies within their own &#8216;Afro Angel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRODUCTION RUN:<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 3, 4, 5, 7, 2022 at 7:00 PM<br \/>\nMarch 4, 2022 10:00 AM (Morning Matinee)<br \/>\nMarch 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN\u00a0written by Charles Fuller and directed by Dr. Mark Henderson. ZOOMAN\u00a0is a Black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorizes his community without regard for color. His most recent crime is the killing of a 12 year-old Black girl on a street filled with witnesses, all of whom are afraid to talk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":349,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions\/2243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}