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Wild + Free - Creole Shop Owner Sydney Augustin is slow to calculate the ancestral economics of being Black and successful in the tiny southwest Georgia town of Prairie Hills. It’s just that the pull to relocate there was so persistent … yet peculiar … while also somehow familiar. Then comes the summer following 45's presidential election. Sydney finally realizes that her perfect small-town experience requires from her parts of her past that she thought would no longer be necessary — powerful parts, conjuring parts like memories of her grandmother that somehow also intersect with Prairie Hills’ most powerful woman. However, if she does not reclaim her own power, and quickly, she'll lose more than her business … and her dreams. Cast Size: 7; Genre: drama, movement/physical. Watch highlights + more.
My Side of the Story: The Black Man Speaks His Truth - An unexpected gathering of five Black men of different ages in the mid-late 1980s becomes a sacred circle to hold their truths - witnessed + supported without interruption or judgment. Then, by the end, the men stand in a clearer light (and hopefully fully seen with compassion + utmost understanding) — but defined by the truths of their own lives.
An immersive community (rather than an audience) experience bears witness to their individual + collective release and restoration. Written to be adaptive to each community. MSOS is an immersive audience experience where they are part of the circle, and at its conclusion, they contribute their thoughts, and how they are experiencing the men's stories. Cast Size: 5—7; Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, immersive, period.
(The concept of this series inspired the devising of Black fathers' stories for Morehouse College's Fathers Matter ATL.)
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"eye of the storm" - Walter and Charlotte's chance meeting during a thunderstorm on an unseasonably warm fall day transports us back in time to the 1950s as the struggle for Civil Rights is about to explode in a flurry of demonstrations, sparked by a resistance to segregated buses in the American south.
"That Day" - They'd been friends since forever. After one phone call, all of that changed. How do they go on from there?