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Awards:
2024 International Black Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem, NC.

BlAcKpOeMoLoGuE

Male Lead
Fiction
Rated: R
Author:
David V. Brooks
Logline:
87, FREE-VERSED, SPOKEN-WORDS, written between 1980 to 1999, about ten (10) men and one (woman) “SPIRITS” on a journey from an 1841 Slave ship revolt to them onset of the AIDS pandemic in 1999 . . . (Performaning Arts).
Synopsis:
87, FREE-VERSED, SPOKEN-WORDS, written between 1980 to 1999, about ten (10) men and one (woman) “SPIRITS” on a journey from an 1841 Slave ship revolt to them onset of the AIDS pandemic in 1999 . . . (Performaning Arts). A Note from the Poet/Playwright: (BLACK) an adj. of the darkest color; without light; dark, evil, somber, dishonorable. Wow! I wanted to challenge these objectionable definitions, and show that out of DARKNESS comes: LIGHT, LOVE, GROWTH, BEAUTY and HEALING, too. (POEM) an imaginative composition in rhythmic or free verse lines is the genre of this choreopoem, that tells a TALL TALE, with a HINT of some TRUTH & REALNESS. (OLOGY) is an indication, or root word, a noun that defines various kinds of speech, writings, or a collection of writings, (e.g., eulogy or trilogy). In words of this type, the “-ology,” element is derived from the Greek noun – logos: speech, debate, narrative, account, and story, etc., etc.,). The suffix has the sense of a certain kind of speaking, writing, and/or storytelling. (MONOLOGUE) a dramatic composition with only one speaker; a long speech by one person. But BLACKPOEMOLOGUE includes eleven speakers. I am taking a few artistic licenses/liberties with this choreopoem.
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