Angela's Mixtape
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 9, 2009
Closed May 2, 2009
Opened Apr 9, 2009
Closed May 2, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Using the rhythms of music and memory, in Angela's Mixtape, playwright/performer Eisa Davis tells the story of a radical upbringing on the dividing line between Oakland and Berkeley, California--in a family that includes her aunt, professor and activist Angela Davis.
Time shifts between the 70s, 80s, and 90s as smoothly as a DJ fading from song to song. Each track, each memory, has a built-in switch to the next, for theatrical momentum that keeps on
building. Crossing cultural borders as it scratches through time, the play moves from Angela's hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to the House of Detention where she was once held prisoner, to the playgrounds of Eisa's Bay Area public schools, the dorm rooms of the Ivy League and the shores of Senegal.
The music crosses styles and decades, but it's hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present. It's just your average black macrobiotic revolutionary dancing family.
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The scandalously talented Eisa Davis -- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her play Bulrusher and an Obie Award winner in 2008 for her work in the musical Passing Strange -- is back with Angela's Mixtape, now at the Ohio Theatre, an autobiographical piece about growing up with her mother, Fania, and her mother's sister, the controversial professor and activist Angela Davis, who is the playwright's namesake. (Her full name is Angela Eisa Davis.) Ultimately, the show, co-presented by New Georges and the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, comes off as a lively if limited valentine to the women in the author's life.
"On this mixtape, style will dictate," Davis states early on. "We bounce ba[...]