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Belarus Free Theatre presents Burning Doors at Clarice Smith, Oct 26-27

Belarus Free Theatre presents Burning Doors at Clarice Smith, Oct 26-27

Belarus Free Theatre
BURNING DOORS
October 26-27, 2017. 8PM
with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina

Thu, Oct 26, 2017 . 8:00PM
Fri, Oct 27, 2017 . 8:00PM

PARENTAL ADVISORY: This performance contains nudity, adult language and scenes of a violent nature. Recommended for mature audiences.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre

What happens when you’re declared an enemy of the state simply for making art? Where do you belong when your government suppresses your basic right to expression? And how do you survive in one of the most brutal prison systems in the world?


Featuring Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina in her stage debut, this blazing new contemporary theatre piece from the refugee-led Belarus Free Theater (BFT) draws on the company’s own experience of political oppression and continues their campaign to stand up for artistic freedom and human rights across the globe. BFT is the only theatre in Europe banned by its government on political grounds. It shares stories of persecuted artists, living under dictatorship, who will not be silenced.

Performed in Russian and Belarusian with English surtitles.

Tickets: General Admission: Regular $25+, Student/Youth: $10

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Black Girl Magic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Oct 20

Black Girl Magic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Oct 20

Clarice Smith and the NextLOOK series presents
Dior Ashley Brown and The dAb Band in
Black Girl Magic
October 20, 2017 at 7pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Dior Ashley Brown and The dAb Band come to Joe’s Movement Emporium October 16th – 20th for a 5-day residency where they will be creating a tribute to women in the performing arts using interactive music components from spoken word, game shows, and live performance. Through an acknowledgement of the female voice, both past and present, Brown seeks to express the creative struggle of black female performing artists, while highlighting their significant contributions to creative change and influence. Expect everything from Nina Simone to Lil Kim.

Tickets are pay-what-you-wish with a suggested donation of $15 per person. Tickets can be purchased by calling 301-699-1819 or visiting Joe’s online at http://www.joesmovement.org. Joe’s is located at 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712. Click here.

Antigone at Clarice Smith, Oct 6-13

Antigone at Clarice Smith, Oct 6-13

Antigone
By Sophocles
Translated by Brendan Kennelly
Directed by Lisa Nathans

October 6 – 13, 2017.

Fri, Oct 6, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 7, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sat, Oct 7, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sun, Oct 8, 2017 . 2:00PM
Tue, Oct 10, 2017 . 7:30PM
Wed, Oct 11, 2017 . 7:30PM
Thu, Oct 12, 2017 . 7:30PM
Fri, Oct 13, 2017 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre

Antigone, a young woman, speaks truth to power, firmly convinced that she is right in following her moral imperative. Her King, Creon, is firmly convinced of the opposite – his law should be obeyed. This elemental ancient play about primordial human themes – honor, loyalty, love, betrayal and conviction – resonates as sharply and as damningly today as it did when it was written 2,500 years ago. This production will focus on the paradox of who is right versus who is wrong… Antigone or Creon? With the help of a modern Greek chorus, audiences will come to their own conclusions.

Note: Tickets to the evening performance on Saturday, October 7 include admission to a pre-show lecture by James Hollis, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington, starting at 6:30pm. His lecture is entitled, “Antigone’s Dilemma: An Introduction to the Universality of Choice and Consequence.”

Tickets: General Admission: Regular $25, Student/Youth: $10

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The Bitter Game at Milkboy Arthouse, Sep 27-28

The Bitter Game at Milkboy Arthouse, Sep 27-28

Keith A. Wallace (USA)
The Bitter Game
September 27-28, 2017. 8 PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Milkboy Arthouse, 7416 Baltimore Ave., College Park 20740

When Jamel’s mother discovers her young son playing with a toy gun, she knows it’s time to explain the rules of the game to him – the rules of surviving as a Black man in America. In this explosive solo performance combining verse, prose and “sh**-talkin’,” Keith A. Wallace draws on his own youth in Philadelphia to examine the effects of racism, the question of excessive force used by police, and the value of Black lives in this country. Co-created and directed by Deborah Stein.

Originally developed for La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival, The Bitter Game comes to The Clarice following its successful run at the Under the Radar Festival in New York City. The performance will be accompanied by a panel discussion featuring campus and community activists and law enforcement representatives.

There will be a post-performance roundtable discussion of Baltimore and Beyond.

Tickets: General Admission: Reserved: $30+, General Admission: $25+, Student/Youth: $10

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GAZR: Life Does Not Live at Clarice Smith, Sep 16

GAZR: Life Does Not Live at Clarice Smith, Sep 16

James Allister Sprang
GAZR: Life Does Not Live

Saturday, September 16, 2017 . 8 PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre

This theatrical and musical performance asks what role technology plays in the appropriation, amplification or suppression of others’ voices. Alone in his bedroom, GAZR the rapper, a persona of poet and performance artist James Allister Sprang, invites the audience to help him record a mixtape on his computer. With his screen projected for the audience, he explores Google, YouTube and other familiar digital spaces, pulling the audience into his imagination, allowing laughter and empathy to open up conversations about race, technology and the appropriation of voices.

James Allister Sprang is multi-disciplinary artist that thrives on the inner workings of language, making work that is a part of life as much as it is representational of it. Sprang has been featured in two HBO documentaries about the growth of young artists and has performed in venues such as the Apollo Theater, The Performing Garage, BHQFU, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, The Miami Art Museum, and The Gusman Theater of Miami.

Tickets: General Admission: $25+, UMD Student: Free tickets available on September 11, 2017. Click here.