AUGUST 13-14, 2008 @ 7pm: when last we flew by Harrison David Rivers
Director: Colette Robert
Featuring: Courtney D. Ellis, Shydel James*, Lucinda Johnson*,
Hunter Gilmore*, Devere Rogers*, E. Dale Smith, and Carsey Walker, Jr.*
*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
Fire! New Play Festival
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
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Set in small town Kansas, when last we flew asks the question -- how black can you be if you are surrounded by white people? In his writing, Harrison seeks to tell stories which in other contexts are often misunderstood, tuned out, or dismissed as mere noise (psst, they also are funny and intelligent too).
Harrison David Rivers on his first play
This interview is the property of and provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a nationwide initiative to record preserve the stories of everyday people. StoryCorps is a registered trademark of Sound Portraits Productions. This excerpt was selected and produced by Freedom Train Productions.
born and raised in kansas and educated at kenyon college and columbia university, harrison david rivers is currently a playwright in residence at freedom train productions and has always written on post-it notes, napkins, in the margins of library books. his plays tend toward the epic: simultaneous narratives occurring in multiple real and imagined spaces, worlds being made and un-made. the impossible is not only possible, but probable. harrison's work has been seen at the 54th street theater (new york musical theater festival), the atlantic theater (24 hour plays), the atlantic stage 2 (potomac theatre project), collective:unconscious (under the radar festival), the riant theatre (strawberry one act festival) and manhattantheatresource.
