Real Time

FREE THEATER celebrating diversity: The Peoplehood present Jaisey Bates’ Real Time at The Open Fist Theater and Art/Works Mainstage, as part of the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

A unique combination of mini-plays, improvisation and spoken word, Real Time integrates several languages, audience participation and up to 15 actors portraying a range of characters including Frankenstein, an unborn child in 1873 South Africa, a Sarajevan cellist, American Civil War soldiers, a lost Zapotec girl, an extremely chipper TV set, Shakespeare-in-the-Hood, The Man in the Maze, and others.

Cast includes Cherita Armstrong*, Tejay Bah, Jaisey Bates, Goreti da Silva, Bill Neal Elk Whistle, Bonnie He, Lina Hellkvist, Tiger Moon, Godwin Obeng, Bethany Orr, Stephanie Pinnock, Stefan Rollins, Forrest Cody Scott, Alan Tafoya and Marie-Françoise Theodore*. *AEA.

“Jaisey Bates’ writing is exciting, poetic, philosophical, and stands tall with a distinctly Native American backbone. Don’t miss this combustible collection of new plays!”
–Abbie Bosworth, Program Director, Playwrights @ The Loft.