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For Immediate Release: March 25, 2008
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Brown Theatre and Sock & Buskin present:
…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
By Marcus Gardley

Directed by Patricia Ybarra
April 10-13 & 17-20, 2008
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Leeds Theatre in the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts
77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912
Box office: (401) 863-2838  or visit:www.brown.edu/tickets

Marcus Gardley’s …And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi is a story of love and longing set at the bitter end of the Civil War in the American South. An escaped slave, Demeter, desperately looks for her lost daughter Po’em. Jean Verse, a Confederate Army soldier who has had a change of heart, braves the river and gunfire to find his true love, leaving his family waiting fruitlessly on their decomposing plantation. The journeys don’t quite lead where they expect, however, forcing all of the characters to reconsider notions of family, belonging and reconciliation. Haunted by the myth of Demeter, …And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi play weaves together striking imagery, lyrical poetry and sly southern wit, leaving its audience breathless as Jesus truly does moonwalk the Mississippi.
"A play is a poem standing up."   --Federico Garcia Lorca
Please join us for a special series of talkbacks!
Thursday, April 17th, 2008: Professor James Campbell, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies, and History at Brown University, whose own research focuses on African American history and on the wider history of the Black Atlantic. Professor Campbell also served as chair to the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice from 2003-2006.
Friday, April 18th, 2008: Professor Daphne Brooks, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. 
About the Playwright:  Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who teaches Playwriting at Columbia University. His most recent play Love is a Dream House in Lorin was nominated for the National Critics Steinberg New Play Award. He has had six plays produced, two of which are: dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre and (L)imitations of Life, at the Empty Space. He was the recipient of the Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, the Eugene O’ Neil Memorial Scholarship and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists and the Lark Play Development Center.
About the Director:  Patricia Ybarra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Speech, & Dance at Brown University. She is also a director, dramaturg and the former administrator of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. In the Spring of 2006 she directed Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea by Cherríe Moraga. Her article “The Revolution Fails Here: Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman as a Mexican Medea” was published in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies.

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