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Theatre Morgan Presents:
"THE GREAT MACDADDY"
By Paul Carter Harrison
Directed by David D. Mitchell
April 4 @ 7:30 pm
April 5* @ 7:30 pm
April 6 @ 3:00 pm,
April 10th @ 10:30 am
April 11 @ 7:30 pm
April 12 @ 7:30 pm
April 13 @ 3:00 pm
SYNOPSIS
The Great MacDaddy is a free-form, episodic journey through African American history. A ritualized African-American event based on the novel The Palm Wine Drinkard by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola. The novel, based on Yoruba folk tales, tells the mythological story of a man who follows a palm wine tapster into the land of the dead or "Deads' Town."
The Great MacDaddy ranges across 20th century America, criss-crossing decades. MacDaddy begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. His adventures are organized as a sequence of beats that are interlaced with music that runs from gospel to voodoo to jazz, dance that incorporates music of the 1970’s, and song that’s incantative and sometimes in the form of scatty rhyme or spoken word.
The playwright, Paul Carter Harrison, introduced terms such as “Nommo” and “Mother/ Word” as constructive references for Black Theatre. His play, The Great MacDaddy won an Obie Award and his play Tabernacle won the Audelco Award for Best Creative Musical. The Drama of Nommo is a book he wrote, which is a collection of essays that identified African retentions in the aesthetic of African American culture and has helped many directors in the Black Theatre practice.
David D. Mitchell will direct The Great MacDaddy with resident light designer Cheryl Williams, guest costume designer Laura Ridgeway, guest scenic designer Jeff Harrison and guest sound designer Jimmy Engelkemier.
All performances are in the Turpin-Lamb Theater of the Murphy Fine Arts Center; 2201 Argonne Drive on the campus of Morgan State University.
For ticket information call 443.885.3625 or email us at theatremorganiap@aol.com.
The Great MacDaddy
April
4th ,*5th, 6th, 10th , 11th, 12th, and 13th
* A panel discussion about the history and state of African American theatre will take place pre-show (5:00pm-7:00pm). Guest panelists include-R.B. Jones, Barbara Bryan, Rosiland Cauthen, Rich Espey, and Amini Johari-Court