Educator Nights for New Play about Langston Hughes

We are pleased to announce that teachers in our network will receive a special educator rate to the premier of Ochre & Onyx: The Langston Hughes Project. Facing History and the Watts Village Theater Company have worked with several schools in Los Angeles to introduce the play, which provides students an opportunity to explore historic examples of positive Afro-Latino collaborations.

Watts Village Theater Company presents
Ochre & Onyx: The Langston Hughes Project
Written by Lynn Manning
Directed by Nataki Garrett

When African-American slam poet Nubia loses her day gig to a bilingual Latina replacement, she takes it out on Latinos in her poetry, until she runs into Lisa, an Afro-Latino painter who takes it upon herself to enlighten Nubia through a museum exhibit about Africans in Mexico. The museum's display of Langston Hughes in Mexico triggers a vicious argument and sends Nubia hurtling into research to find Langston's true soul. Meanwhile, in 1920, the young Langston travels to Toluca, Mexico, in a desperate plot to get money to study poetry from his father James, a cold, hard-driving businessman who fled the racism of the United States long ago. As father and son struggle in the past, poet and painter struggle in the present, through episodes of passion and racial violence. What world are they inheriting? What world do they want to create? And what legacy remains from our greatest African American poet's journey to the soul of Mexico?

May 1 through May 31, 2009
LA Design Center
5955 S. Western Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90047

May 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8: Preview Admission $10, Educator Rate $5
May 9-31: General Admission $20, Educator Rate $10

Performance Schedule is Fri, Sat @8pm & Sun. @3pm
Additional Performances on Thurs., May 7th @8pm and Sat., May 16th & 30th @3pm

To make a reservation or group sales, please contact (323) 599-0811, and ask for educator rate.