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Freedom Train Productions presents:

Every Wednesday and Thursday in August 2007
8/1, 8/2, 8/8, 8/9, 8/15, 8/16, 8/22, 8/23, 8/29, and 8/30

@ South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn
All Stage Readings are free and begin at 7pm.

Sponsored by Bread Stuy :: Fine Coffees and Cakes

Opening Night, August 1st & August 2nd:
Hosted by Djola Branner, Professor and Playwright
Are Women Human?
by Nick Mwaluko
Director: Alicia Dhyana House
What if as a child you were told by a deity that you were meant to be the opposite sex? Could you be courageous for your god or goddess in the face of intolerance? Are Women Human? by Nick Mwaluko (Columbia MFA) is a play about one person's struggle for acceptance and love.

August 8 - 9th:
I Am Not A Hero (formerly titled Super)
by Andre Lancaster
Director: Christopher Burris
Meet Shannon Tubbs Jr: activist, filmmaker, and professional cynic. Dumped by his boyfriend and jumped by a homophobic attacker, in Andre Lancaster's I Am Not A Hero, ancestral forces help Shannon re-discover the superhero and superlover, arguably, within us all.

August 15 - 16th:
Steal Away
by Andrea E. Davis
Director: C. Sala Hewitt
In Steal Away, Romi is a young Black woman who lives in the Underground, a community founded by runaway enslaved peoples. But after she comes out, Romi confronts this society's sexism, homophobia, and stubborn sense of liberation.

August 22 - 23rd:
LIKE WILDFIRE
by yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Director: Gloria Bigelow
If compassion became a contagious disease, what would it look like? Poet, performance activist & playwright yvonne fly onakeme etaghene answers this question in a play that is a poetic exploration of humanity in a brutally apathetic world. These characters delve to the depths of love, activism & madness, and must face their fears to survive & thrive: com/passionately.

August 29 - 30th:
Grace
by Jesse Cameron Alick
Director: Andrew K. Russell
Remember that guy who you swore was gay but turned out to be metrosexual? Or what about that best friend you always wanted to date? According to the world of Grace, you were lovers - in a past life! Playwright Jesse Cameron Alick calls Grace a remix of Judeo-Christian beliefs with Buddhist tradition weaved into a story about how some things in life are beyond our control. Freedom Train Productions calls Grace genius.

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