Freedom Train Productions
@ South Oxford Space (138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn)

THURS JULY 22ND, 2010 @ 7:30PM
SHE WHO STRUGGLES by LaTonia Phipps
Directed by Nora Abo Ali
*a stage reading performance

A modern day Assata Shakur re-imagined, living in gentrified Harlem and in love with a white woman.

Advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets | Limited door tickets

The Artistic Team: Gina Grandi (Actor), Sherette Greg (Actor), Jamal Jordan (Production Assistant and Intern), Che Lyons (Actor), Norman Small Jr. (Actor), Andre Lancaster (Producing Artist), Aurin Squire (Dramaturg and Producing Artist), and Mina Taylor (Actor).

The Associate Artist & Playwright on her dangerous new play:

As a Caribbean black queer playwright who grew up in a conscious Nation of Islam home where black was right, gay was not, and identity was hugely important there always seems to be potholes of unanswered questions. Why, What’s, When, Now you see I don’t get that, plagued my childhood memories. I believe what makes my voice as a playwright unique in telling this story is my need to understand issues within my community that go unanswered and the urgency behind changing these issues now so that they’re not carried over into another generation.

I am a self-taught playwright and like most playwrights, I write to address what I don’t understand. But what I bring to my writing is a sense of honestly and yearning to grow from these questions so that I feel whole and comfortable in the world that I’m helping to build. I believe SHE WHO STRUGGLES sets out to do just that.
- LaTonia Phipps

FIRE funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and S/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.

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