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WINE IN THE WILDERNESS A Stageplay written by Alice Childress W /LONERS By J.C. COOPER
UNDER PRIVELEDGED,UNDER EDUCATED VS PRIVELAGED AND QUITE POSSIBLY ARTICULATE OVER EDUCATED. IN THIS BLACK STAGE CLASSIC, IN THE MIDST OF A RIOT IN HARLEM CHILDRESS GOES TO WORK.
A FERVENT PROTEST TO THE VERDICT ON STAGE.
COME OUT AND SEE THE BEAUTY IN THIS PIECE.
@ BERKELEY BLACK REPERTORY GROUP-FRI/ST/SUN
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-SEE THIS STAGEPLAY!-FRI/SAT/SUN
Historically, the 1960's were a period of wrongful deaths,uprising
and rioting, due to the civil rights movement in America.With the backdrop of Ferguson, in light of the Treyvon verdict , and so many of the racially charged incidents of today, it only seems appropriate that this 'Nora Vaughn favorite'
by Alice Childress be staged.
The setting of the play is an apartment in Harlem. Alice Childress makes important points with the characters in this play. While Blacks in general as A whole opposed the racism they experienced in the 1960's, there were different socio-economic strata within the African Americans at this point in time that believed they were above it all.
However, there were also shared experiences and heritage, which superseded all of that. Playwright Alice Childress' poignant remembrance of the early 1960s depicts an African-American society riddled with schismsurban versus rural, feminism versus sexism, and revolution versus, seemingly, everything else. Sooner or later in Bill's apartment almost everyone sees someone they think is "holding the race back"and as a result, each gets lost in the intra-cultural stereotype slapped on them.
CHILDRESS OFTEN REFLECTS UPON THE FACT THAT WHILE THEIR FRAME OF REFERENCE MAY BE DIFFERENT, THOSE WHO ARE LESS EDUCATED ARE EQUALLY INTELLIGENT AND ARTICULATE.
CHILDRESS PLAYS AROUND WITH SPEECH PATTERNS ALOT TO PROVE THE POINT THAT CLASSISM AND SEXISM ARE IMMUTABLY CONNECTED TO THE A WOMANS EXPERIENCE.
ADDITIONALLY, RACISM RARES ITS UGLY HEAD AND ILLUMINATES THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS THAT EXIST WITH CLASS SEPERATION WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. REVEALED THE IDEAOLOGIES THAT RAISE THEIR UGLY FACE ONLY TO BE COMICALLY ADJUSTED WITH CHILDRESS STYLE OF WORK.
ALSO SHOWING-'L O N E R S'
Written By
'California'
JoanCooper
A story about Self Renewal, Self Respect. Although you may find love on a 2 way street you pass many crosswalks, and intersections that provide you with the opportunity to make A U-Turn before you loose love of oneself, along a lonesome highway. 7 people who, while lost in their own identity, finally, truly find themselves.
Purchase tickets here:
On J.C. Cooper:
http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2014/09/26/we-remember-profilic-writer-j-california-cooper-dead-at-82/
CELEBRATEYOU HISTORY & BLACK REPERTORY GROUPS 50TH SEASON
NOW THROUGH DEC. 14TH-A DONT MISS THE HOLIDAY DYAD-
(1) Wine In The Wilderness -music Nat King Cole,
(2) LONERS by Joan 'CALIFORNIA; COOPER (RIP)
HOLIDAY DYAD
Come see Berkeley Black Repertory Group Theater present:
ALICE CHILDRESSES
'STAGE-MENT on the riots
and the state of RACE RELATIONS
This stageplay is providing for some of us, right now,
some messages we seem to need.,
ALICE CHILDRESS DELIVERS THIS MESSAGE AS SERENDIPITY WOULD HAVE IT
50 YEARS TO THE DATE OF THE HARLEM RIOTS OF 1964.
SYNOPSIS: 'WINE IN THE WILDERNESS'
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 1964 HARLEM RACE RIOTS.
in the Autumn of 1964. Harlem's melting pot to exploded!
In the eye of this storm, Tomorrow Marie (our main character) provides some very much needed 'roll up my sleeves' bootstrapped deliverance.
1 painter named Bill, 1 stranger named TOMORROW?, A couple in cahoots named Sonny and Cynthia, and A homeless man called Oldtimer. While seeking refuge from the results of the rioting going on outside, find themselves trapped in bills flat. They ALL struggle to make sense of ALL OF IT in the midst of A myriad of eroding effects that effect the overall health of the..
Black Community
However,
Does healing occur, is it merely observed, is it her fault or your fault? Will Bill change his masterpiece or will the masterpiece change him? Find out for yourself what side of the fence will you be on before its through.
On the eve Bill was to paint his masterpiece, A Tryptich..
A healing occurs. Flat in that good old Brownstone,
(WHICH HAPPENS TO BE WHEN BERKELEY BLACK REPETORY GROUP-BRG- INCORPORATED ITSELF AS A BLACK THEATER GROUP)
THE BRG ENSEMBLE PRESENTS ITST PRESENTATION OF WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Wine In The Wilderness written n 1964 examines the African American community within the backdrop of the Harlem Riots of 1964
In A Flat inside
A Harlem Brownstone
'Wine In The Wilderness'
written in 1964, by Alice Childress
examines the African American
state in the midst
Of The '64 Harlem Race Riots!
Given the current state of Black America
the stage play, should be seen by family members of ALL AGES,
ALL CREEDS, ALL COLORS AND ALL ORIENTATIONS.
WINE IN THE WILDERNESS......
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/905225
......should be seen by every household
as the treasures within this timeless masterpiece
speak 50 years in the language of FULL CIRCLE AND THROUGH EVELUATION CAN BRING ABOUT THE CURRENTLY NEEDED LEVEL OF HEALING.
The Black Repertory Group Veteran Ensemble present an Alice Childress stage play.DONT MISS THE DIAD-(1) Wine In The Wilderness (2) LONERS by Joan 'CALIFORNIA; COOPER (RIP)
WINE IN THE WILDERNESS A Stageplay written by Alice Childress
Playwright Alice Childress' poignant remembrance of the early 1960s depicts an African-American society riddled with schisms urban versus rural, feminism versus sexism, and revolution versus, seemingly, everything else....
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3201 Adeline St.
Berkeley, CA 94703
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