Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Play About Civil Rights Era: The Party People at Berkeley Rep

Here is the info on "The Party People", a multimedia theater presentation about the Civil Rights Era currently playing at Berkeley Rep. Anyone interested in checking it out????

http://berkeleyrep.org/season/1415/8235.asp?gclid=CIi2jJuO8sECFdGCfgod8VEA9g

Here's the description of the show on the Berkeley Rep web site:

Get ready for a hyperkinetic mix of live video, hip hop, jazz, rock, gospel, blues, Latin rhythms, and spoken word as the explosive theatre ensemble UNIVERSES rocks and unlocks the radical and complicated legacy of the Black Panthers and Young Lords. These seminal activists fought injustice, provided free food and medical care for their communities—and struggled against a government determined to suppress them. Based on dozens of interviews, Party People imagines the Black Panthers and Young Lords reuniting today at an art opening curated by a couple of young counterculturists, where old wounds open and generations collide. What is the price of being a revolutionary, and what happens to those who come after?
Party People was developed in The Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work.

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