Category Archives: Drama

Soft Revolution: Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah at Venus Theatre, Nov 17-Dec 11

Soft Revolution: Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah at Venus Theatre, Nov 17-Dec 11

SOFT REVOLUTION: SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH BY ALANA VALENTINE

November 17 – December 11, 2016
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

What do you do when you profoundly disagree with someone you love? At the heart of Soft Revolution: Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the story of a young Australian-born Muslim woman and an intergenerational clash with her own Aunt. Based on interviews with Afghani/ Australian Muslim women and produced with the support of a large number of Muslim women from a diversity of Muslim cultures in Australia, this play will compel audiences with its portrait of women who are articulate, highly educated and deeply spiritual. University student Shafana turns to the religion of her heritage for answers after a terrorist attack, resulting in a deep experience of faith and a controversial decision to wear the hijab. But for her Aunt Sarrinah, also a devout Muslim but old enough to regret the changes in her Afghan homeland, the hijab represents both a world from which she has escaped and her fears about the new world she has embraced. Above all, this play is a startling meditation on the clash between individual freedom and cultural context, experienced through two tender and fiercely drawn female characters.

Tickets are $20. Buy tickets here.

A Song for Coretta at Bowie State University, Nov 17-20

A Song for Coretta at Bowie State University, Nov 17-20

BSU Theatre:
A Song For Coretta

Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7:30pm
Friday, November 18, 2016, 11:00am and 7:30pm
Saturday, November 19, 2016, 7:30pm
Sunday, November 20, 2016, 2:30pm

Reflect on the memory and influence of Coretta Scott King in this moving drama written by Pearl Cleage. Guest director Danielle A. Drakes takes you back in time to February 6, 2006, as people began lining up at dawn outside of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose body lay in state in the small sanctuary. By mid-morning, the crowd wound down the street and around the corner of the old red brick building. People of all ages stood patiently for hours, waiting to say goodbye.

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, Bowie State University.

Tickets: General Admission: $12, Students, Faculty, Staff: $7, Children: $5

Contact:
Bob Bartlett
bbartlett@bowiestate.edu
301-860-3769

Dinner with Friends at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 4-20

Dinner with Friends at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 4-20

Dinner With Friends
by Donald Margulies
Directed by Bob Kleinberg

November 4 – 20, 2016
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sunday at 2:00

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Married couples Karen and Gabe and Beth and Tom have been best friends for years, raising their children like a family, sharing their summers at Martha’s Vineyard and dreaming how they will grow old together. Yet one evening at dinner, with Tom heading out of town, Beth breaks down and tells Karen and Gabe that her marriage to Tom is falling apart, starting a chain reaction as each one attempts to come to terms about their relationship with each other.

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy Tickets here.

Special Note: Dinner With Friends is teaming with So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E.). To help out those in need during this upcoming holiday season, GAC has committed to donating 10% of its net proceeds for the Dinner With Friends run. In conjunction with this, GAC is also sponsoring a Can for Candy program. We will exchange a candy of the patron’s choice at the concessions bar for a can or non-perishable box of food.