From Gumbo To Mumbo (Staged Reading)

From Gumbo to Mumbo
February 19, 2018
Playwrights
Drew Anderson and Dwayne Lawson-Brown
Director
Duane Richards II

A Keegan PLAY-RAH-KA and Boiler Room Series Staged Reading

A dreadlock-rocking SouthEast DC b-boy and video game geek who crochets his way through “have and have (k)not” meet up with a bald and bearded New Orleanian science teacher turned rhyme speaker who uses comedy to contemplate his place in Trump’s America. Together, they conjure a dynamic cauldron of hip hop, poetry, and theatre to colorfully redefine masculinity, question social and political issues, and celebrate love and the search for home.

PRESENTED BY PRK AND BRS: A collaboration of Keegan PLAY-RAH-KA and the Boiler Room Series, and presented through support from Children’s Theatre Foundation of America and DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, From Gumbo To Mumbo is a dynamic new work that uses styles of theatre, spoken word, and hip-hop to explore contemporary themes.

Drawing inspiration from From Gumbo To Mumbo and working in collaboration with teaching artist Regie Cabico, PRK will use this exciting presentation as a springboard for a new project to develop a fully realized spoken word play written for DC public school students to celebrate who they are, where they are from, and who they will become.

Cast

Drew Anderson and Dwayne Lawson-Brown

Production Team

Director Duane Richards II