The Ladies Ring Shout
Defibrillator
Chicago, IL
The Ladies Ring Shout
*World Premiere*
A production of Honey Pot Performance
Co-devised by Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal
Costumes by Lindsay Obermeyer
Set & Environmental Design by Jeanne Medina & Chris Nightengale
Using a combination of spoken word, movement, and an original soundtrack, The Ladies Ring Shout journeys through contemporary women of color's experiences. The multimedia work meditates on four frames integrated into our lived realities - the statistics and sociological condition of women of color, our mundane everyday acts, the codes and rules we are disciplined into, and the myths we conjure to imagine our future possibilities.
August 4-6 2011 at the Defibrillator, 1136 N. Milwaukee
$10 online | $15 at the door
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What critics are saying about The Ladies Ring Shout, seen recently as part of Collaboraction's Sketchbook Festival:
"Suspect Politic [a scene from LRS] takes a Bell Hooks approach to black feminism with its rat-a-tat series of questions, answers, and accusations covering 40 years of debate in eight minutes.."
-The Chicago Reader
"Part police interrogation, part poetry slam, the piece features some of the wittiest writing in the festival as it tears down stereotypes concerning the "highly accomplished, often angry, typically lonely, usually God-fearing, Essence magazine-reading Black Woman."
-Chicago Tribune
"The trio of Meida McNeal, Felicia Holman and Abra Johnson contributes a sharp take on African-American female experience in "Suspect Politic."
-Time Out Chicago
| Minimum Age: 16 |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Sales have ended for this event. Tickets may still be available at the door.
For more information about future performances please go to: http://www.ladiesringshout.wordpress.com |
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| Posted On: Aug 04, 2011 9:49 PM Reply |
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Just landed back on this planet from the lush geniusness these women have sewn together. It is 'a show' for those who tend to be one dimensional and static, but it is a dynamic and steady call to arms for those of us who know about carrying oppression and more importantly those brave enough to return that oppression back to sender.
To sit in a performance space and hear vibrant women devoid of that canned artificiality so often heard from over functioning, yet somehow still 'flat' mainlined/mainstreamed "actresses", proves the small showcase arena is woefully overdue for Black Voice on Black terms sans apology. Wry, savvy , woeful, riotous, saucy, clever, enchanting all at once, Ladies Ring Shout speaks directly to the deadly gaze of the oppressors and with precise and uncompromising execution dismantles that fetishizing and dares the audience to literally 'ride or die'
Ligthers-inna- di-air Meida, Abra and Felicia.
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| First: | Thursday Aug 04, 2011 8:00 PM | | Last: | Saturday Aug 06, 2011 8:00 PM |
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Defibrillator
1136 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642
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