BSR_S08E12 - the Are We Free Yet? project

Broad Street Review, The Podcast

AngelPirate Productions presents:

the Are We Free Yet? project

based on the book by Tina Strawn

curated, written & directed by TS Hawkins

Through sound and verse, we sojourn in an afro-future encapsulated within a Sunday dinner unpacking decades and dynasties of epigenetic memories. Will the future ever progress against the past? Sauté and serenade with ANTIQUITY and DESTINEÉ as they prepare a table of life, love, and a longing to still be free.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

130PM: Creative Chatback after the matinee reading

7PM: Champagne Celebration to follow the evening reading

CAST/CREW/CREATIVES

Cynda Purnell as ANTIQUITY

Maria Genao Beltre as DESTINEÉ

Jordan Simone reading stage directions

Tina Strawn - author of Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America (Row House Publishing)

TS Hawkins - playwright, director, curator & dramaturg, marketing manager, and stage manager

AngelPirate Productions - producer

Gabrielle Corsaro - assistant stage manager

Ella Namour - light & sound operator

NaBrayah Jones - still photography

Prime Act Media LLC - videographer

ABOUT THE PLAY

Through sound and verse, we sojourn in an afro-future encapsulated within a Sunday dinner unpacking decades and dynasties of epigenetic memories. Will the future ever progress against the past? Sauté and serenade with ANTIQUITY and DESTINEÉ as they prepare a table of life, love, and a longing to still be free.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR

TS HAWKINS (they/them) is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, trauma-informed & award-winning educator, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, sweet bread peaches (formerly, Cartons of Ultrasounds), Too Late to Apologize, In Their Silence (formerly, They’ll Neglect to Tell You), #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts...”, #SuiteTea, the Are We Free Yet? project, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, The Hotel Haikus, and Becoming Saturn: a collection of rhymes, roses, and resistance. Hawkins’ works and powerful performances have been praised by the Barrymore Awards - Victory Foundation for Excellence in Theatre Education recipient, Philadelphia Magazine - Best of Philly, BroadwayWorld, Philly Voice, NPR, WHYY, WURD Radio, Philadelphia Weekly, Chicago Tribune, The Dramatist, and dosageMagazine. Featured playwriting opportunities include the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Semifinalist & Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist for 2024-25. Ongoing interactive projects: TrailOff, Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience, and Becoming Saturn; Hawkins’s first studio poetry album with HawkHatt Music.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TINA STRAWN (she/they) is a joy and liberation advocate, activist, author of Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America, and the owner and host of the Speaking of Racism podcast. The heart of her work is leading Legacy Trips, immersive antiracism experiences where participants visit historical locations such as Montgomery and Selma, AL, and utilize spiritual practices as tools to affect personal and collective change. Tina has three adult children, an ex-husband, an ex-wife, and an ex-country. She has been a full-time minimalist nomad since February 2020. Tina travels the globe speaking, writing, teaching, and exploring where on the planet she can feel safe and free in her/their queer, Black, woman-identifying body.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.tspoetics.com/2024/07/event-are-we-free-yet-project-by-ts.html