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Beauty Is The Best Priest
drama of the Harlem Renaissance
directed by Zell Miller III, Florinda Bryant, Feliz McDonald, and Marcus McQuirter
February 22nd – March 3rd, 2013
Fridays, Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $10 general, $5 students and seniors
All proceeds benefit students through the Dance and Drama Scholarship Fund.
Performed at the BOYD VANCE THEATRE, George Washington Carver Civic Center, 1165 Angelina Street (click for map)
Representing the cultural flowering of Harlem, from the 1920’s – 1930’s, our spring production includes prize winning short works by African American women including Zora Neale Hurston, May Miller, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Ottie Graham.
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An impressive cast brought San Antonio playwright Antoinette Winstead's Common Ground to the Boyd Vance theatre this past weekend, with the sponsorship of the Pro Arts Collective. LeVan Owens stands tall at the center of the piece, in the character of James Parker, a powerfully built man stiff legged from a rodeo accident long ago. He's a dutiful son enduring a deep, mute resentment.
Winstead sets the piece at a Christmas sometime in the early 70s, starting the action with the unexpected arrival home of younger brother Luke, an Air Force pilot back from Vietnam. Luke's wife Sara Beth and his six-year-old child Veronica have for some undefined period (years?) been living with the boys' mother, "Miss Ruth." In program notes Winstead says that Common Ground is her attempt at addressing family dysfunction in all its dark and illustrious glory.
The situation depicted is plausible. The drama arises from tensions between the brothers and the enigmatic position in the family of Luke's wife Sara Beth. Six-year-old Ronnie is a lively and inquisitive child who worships Uncle James and initially distrusts the smooth, smiling stranger said to be her father. And "Miss Ruth," with a mother's sharp eyes and authority works hard to keep comity in the household with the best weapons she has at hand -- cooking, chores for everyone, good-natured grousing, and, when necessary, straight talk.
Read More at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .
