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WORLD PREMIERE AUDIO PLAY
SHADOW/LAND
Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by Candis C. Jones
Featuring Te'Era Coleman (9-1-1 Caller), Lizan Mitchell (Magalee), Lance E. Nichols (9-1-1 Dispatcher and Caller), Lori Elizabeth Parquet (9-1-1 Dispatcher and Caller), Sunni Patterson (Griot), and Michelle Wilson (Ruth).
Tow Playwright-in-Residence and Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza joins The Public’s digital stage with an audio production of SHADOW/LAND, a harrowing new drama set amid the ongoing devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Ruth coaxes her mother, Magalee, to sell Shadowland, the family business and New Orleans’s first air-conditioned dancehall and hotel for Black people. But as Hurricane Katrina begins her ruin, Ruth is forced to wrestle with all that she’s ready to let go. Directed by Lilly Award winner Candis C. Jones, SHADOW/LAND is the first installment of a 10-play cycle traversing the Katrina diaspora in an examination of the ongoing effects of disaster, evacuation, displacement, and urban renewal rippling in and beyond New Orleans.
Three-part discussion series “The Clearing” will accompany audio play and be hosted by Soyica Diggs Colbert and feature Sheila Foster, Shana M. Griffin, Jack Phillips Moore, Cara Page, Imani Perry, and Lauren A. Whitehead.
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Each of the episodes are now available here as a podcast, and will also be available for download wherever you get your podcasts until April 13, 2022 at 11:59PM.
For the optimal experience of the sonic landscape of the play, we recommend listening with over-the-ear headphones as the first option, earbuds as the second option, and an external or Bluetooth speaker as a third option.
Run Time of SHADOW/LAND is approximately 70 minutes.
Run Time of The Clearing, Part 1: A Useable Past is approximately 26 minutes.
Run Time of The Clearing, Part 2: Imagining and Building New Structures is approximately 16 minutes.
Run Time of The Clearing, Part 3: Healing is approximately 19 minutes.
SHADOW/LAND will be offered with an Open Caption video shortly after its audio premiere. If you have questions or concerns, need assistance, or an accommodation not mentioned above, please contact us at [email protected].