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A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
Taking her title from Langston
Hughes’s poem, “Harlem,” Hansberry forced both blacks and whites to
re-examine the deferred dreams of African-Americans. She asked blacks to reconsider how those
dreams might be defined; she demanded that whites not impede the fulfillment
of those dreams for one more second.
And she posed all her concerns in a work that portrayed a black family
with a greater realism and complexity than had ever been previously seen.
Directed by Donis
Leonard
October 12, 13, 19 20 at 8pm, and
October 14, 21 at 2pm
Edison Studio Theatre
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The Dominguez Bridge Project
By Naomi Buckley and Brenda Killian
The newly-formed Dominguez Bridge Theatre
Company created a community-based original play taken from interviews with
forty years of Dominguez graduates. The play focuses on the connections
between education and the real world, as it follows the stories of students
who prepare to play many roles in their families, relationships, and
communities.
Directed by Bill DeLuca
November 9, 10, 16, 17 at 8pm, and
November 18 at 2pm
University Theatre
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The Colored Museum
By George C. Wolfe
A humorous view of black
life, łA Colored Museum,˛ is
one of the most well-known satires on black culture. In a series of 11 vignettes, Wolfe puts
African American imagery and stereotype on display as a commentary on their
struggle to reconcile the past and find a true identity.
Directed by Jeffery Wright
February 22, 23, 29, Mar 1
at 8pm, and
Feb 24 Mar 2 at 2pm - Edison Studio Theatre
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Lysistrata
By Aristophanes
Possibly the most bold
antiwar play ever written, the women of ancient Athens and Sparta join together for a sex strike, to withhold
their “offerings” to their men until they stop the senseless
war. In the satiric universe of
Aristophanes, everything is turned upside down, but the message of the play
extends far beyond the 5th century B.C. to our time: make love, not war!
Directed by Marla Gam-Hudson
April 18, 19, 25, 26 at 8pm, and
April 27 at 2pm
University Theatre
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