ABOUT MADDRAMA WEEK
MADDRAMA week is when MADDRAMA takes out time to say “Thanks” to our supporters. We recognize that the shows we are presenting are worthy of having a set price for admission. However, in this time of economic hardship, we don’t want anything to hinder you from sharing with us, so that’s why we have decided to make admission, PAY WHAT YOU CAN!!.
All proceeds from the shows will go to our Scholarship Fund.
All productions will be held in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium on the campus of Jackson State University
Any contributions should be made payable to
MADDRAMA
1400 John R. Lynch Street
JSU Box 17021
Jackson, MS 39217
601-979-8612
ABOUT The Colored Museum
Wednesday, April 1 7:30 p.m.
The Colored Museum was written in 1985 during the post-Vietnam War era. The beginning takes place on an airplane which is ever so exactly traveling through time. The airplane visits different museum exhibits, each which displays African-American culture and history from the time they were brought to America as slaves all the way through nearly recent times. Each exhibit displays a different event or lifestyle in different parts of the country in different eras.
The Colored Museum examines the honor and desire of African-American people to escape centuries of suffering that have been a continuous source of baggage.
The play features eleven vignettes that satirize elements of African American culture:
* Git on Board
* Cookin' with Aunt Ethel
* The Photo Session
* Soldier with a Secret
* The Gospel According to Miss Roj
* The Hairpiece
* The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play
* Symbiosis
* Permutations
* The Party
ABOUT A Family Affair
April 3-5
Friday 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 3:00 p.m.
This play is so essential as we look at how the family is being torn apart in our society. Over the course of a weekend, the characters in A Family Affair realizes that it does not matter how much success you achieve in life or how much money you have, it is the ‘family’ which offers the solid foundation that gives your life meaning.
Written and directed by MADDRAMA member, Prince Duren, A Family Affair received a Rating of Excellent in the Original Play Writing Competition at the 72nd National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Conference/Competition in 2008, and was staged for the first time at the 73rd (NADSA) Conference.
This will be the premiere staging of the play in Jackson, MS.
ABOUT A TRIBUTE TO HIP HOP
March 30-31 7:30 p.m.
HIP HOP is a music genre and cultural movement which developed in New York City in the early 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans. Since first emerging in the Bronx, the lifestyle of hip hop culture has spread around the world
Our production is a showcase that pays tribute to the Music, Fashion, Dance, and Poetry of Hip Hop.
From the early days of Run DMC, MC Lyte and Kid and Play to the modern day sound of MADDRAMA’s own Authentic, you are sure to find a moment in our tribute that takes you back and give you that feeling of appreciation for a style that continues to live on!!
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