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A Furtive Movement: The Use of Farce by Vatic Kuumba

Fri, Feb 24 2017 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

$10 – $20

AS220 presents A Furtive Movement: The Use of Farce ​ by Vatic Kuumba

February 17, 18, 24, 25 at 7:00 pm
February 19, 26 at 2:00 pm

AS220 Black Box Theatre 95 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903
$20 / free for Brown and RISD students with ID
For $10 Student and low income tickets, RSVP to [email protected]

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A Furtive Movement: The Use of Farce is set in an alternate future that parallels our present, where over one thousand people are killed by the police every year, told from the perspective of one of the victims of the State. whose death inspired protest, riots, and the formation of a black billionaire super PAC that funnels dark money to radical community building organizations of color including a West African self help guru, a girl scout troop that gives belts to thugs, the manufacturer of bulletproof hoodies, and a documentarian obsessed with showing the life and death of a victim of police violence. Is there therapy for society? Can the infrastructure stand and be repurposed? Or does it all need to burn and be rebuilt with altered intention?

This original world premiere is the first full length play by locally renowned slam poet, rapper, MC, and activist Vatic Kuumba​, in collaboration with director / choreographer Ronald Kevin Lewis​, and visual artists D.S Kinsel, Funmilayo Alieru, Ryan Alves, and Alex Ruiz, amongst others. The cast of A Furtive Movement: The Use of Farce includes Christopher Johnson, Yemi Owojori-Omisore, Esteban Coronado, Muggs Fogarty, Marshal Gilson, Pheonyx Williams, Becky Bass, Elyssa Perez, Brian Folan, and Delbert Collins.

A Furtive Movement: The Use of Farce ​is the second full production to be incubated by AS220’s Community Live Arts Residency Initiative. As part of the residency, Kuumba and his collaborators have been staging “Ice Cream Social Justice” events at arts organizations throughout Providence, including School One, New Urban Arts, UCAP Middle School, PRYSM, and AS220 Youth.

This project is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

 

 

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Date:
Fri, Feb 24 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$10 – $20
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Venue

AS220 Black Box Theatre
95 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903 United States
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