The Last Street Play |
Paula Jai Parker's adaptation of Richard Wesley's 1970 The Mighty Gents re-examines the poisonous effects of a big dream deferred. Among a group of friends living " barely" in Ghettotown, USA, Frankie (Forrest D. Martin) is the most restless spirit behind a singing/rap group called the Last Street Disciples the performance arm of a fearsome street gang of the same name.
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Aboriginal Treatment Center |
“You’ve killed the American dream,” accuses a grease-painted judge (Lamont Coleman) to janitor Tyrone Smith (Jemal McNeil), who’s on trial for diluting his parents’ civil rights dreams into a modern cliché. An ex-addict with grunt ambitions, five kids, and bad credit, and wearing a minstrel’s tap shoes with a mop bucket glued to his hand.
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