Creative Provocateurs, Vol. 1: Three New Works at Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
No rating yet.
Highways Performance Space presents a collection of three new dramatic and satirical stage works. Programs include Antwone Fisher's Finding Fish, based on his bestselling autobiography, which offers a new perspective on events in the Denzel Washington movie Antwone Fisher. Also featured are Tina Andrews' one-act about race, Charlotte Sophia, and J.M. Morris' two-part Uh-Uh!.
Event summary prepared by the Goldstar Editorial Team.
* Additional fees apply.
Currently at Highways Performance Space and Gallery:
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Katrina Lenk, the acclaimed star of the rock opera Lovelace, visits Highways Performance as her alter-ego moxy phinx in The Wanting. Blending music, dance and theater, The Wanting showcases phinx's original songs and intense vocal performance, which has been described as a blend of Bjork, Marlene Dietrich and Prince. The show also features puppets, six dancers, and film projections. Learn More
More Details About Creative Provocateurs, Vol. 1
More Information
Website: http://www.highwaysperformance.org/
Highways Performance Space, in celebration of its 20th Anniversary, presents the benefit Creative Provocateurs, Vol. 1, an evening of new, original works by award-winning writers Antwone Fisher, Tina Andrews, and J.M. Morris.
Friday, August 21st performance includes: Charlotte Sophia and Uh-Uh!: Part 1. Saturday, August 22nd performance features: Finding Fish and Uh-Uh!: Part 2.
Antwone Fisher’s Finding Fish is based on the same-titled, New York Times best-selling book Fisher wrote about growing up in foster care. Fisher’s life was initially explored in Antwone Fisher, the film starring Denzel Washington that also garnered Fisher several writing awards (including the prestigious Humanitas Award). In this one act two-hander, Fisher explores the story from a new perspective, one more real and raw than the film version.
Tina Andrews’ one act Charlotte Sophia is a cutting-edge take on race, exploring the African descent of England’s Queen Charlotte. The recipient of several awards for her work (including the WGA Award from her peers), Andrews continues her penchant for provocative projects with a contemporary staging, along the lines of the Tony-nominated Mary Stuart and Julie Taymor’s Titus.
Uh-Uh!: Parts 1 & 2 features J.M. Morris’ signature satiric to dramatic writing with provocative characters of diverse backgrounds, but linked by the universal phrase, “uh-uh,” and all its cultural variances. Her pieces range from a dramatic piece about an Iranian who decides to join the current political protests in a very unique manner to a satiric “expose” about who really was behind Robert Downey, Jr.’s portrayal of a black man in Tropic Thunder. As with Morris’ previous works at Highways, Uh-Uh! will be directed by famed independent filmmaker, Charles Burnett (To Sleep With Anger, the recent Namibia: Struggle for Freedom with Danny Glover).
Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.
