OM! A Street Corner Griot’s Comedy

The Point CDC’s theatre season heats up with the debut of its newest resident, Oversoul Theatre Collective and its co-production of Om! A Street Corner Griot’s Comedy, written and directed by Mwalim. The show blends African influenced rites of passage with vaudeville and is a comic shout-out to street corner storytellers,
barbershop trash talkers and kitchen table philosophers everywhere. In the play, young Wilson has turned 18 and is ready for a raucous night with his older brother Doug and his buddies. Instead of running around the city, it
turns out to be a night of playing cards and telling stories. Wilson discovers that he is in on a meeting of a secret society of griots (pronounced gree-os) who come from a West African storytelling/oral tradition of historians, teachers and advisors. All the while, there is a massive manhunt for a mysterious escaped convict named OM who wears a hat.