Still Becoming: A Solo Show Series
Ticket Prices
FREE
LOCATION
Drakeford Complex in Carrboro, NC
May 11 at 7:00 PM
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Performed by Mengwe Wapimewah
May 16 at 7:00 PM
ACT I: Toast Her written and performed by Hayley Cartee
ACT II: Empty Fullness: Meditations on Death & Life written and performed by Adam Versényi
About for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Synopsis: Capturing the brutal, tender, and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, for colored girls… offers a transformative, riveting evening of dance, music, and poetry. The work opened at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in March 1976, moved quickly to Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, and made its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre on September 15th of that same year.
Originally created for an ensemble of women, Mengwe has adapted this work into a solo piece as part of her graduate MFA Acting Solo project.
Run Time: 90 minutes, plus a 25-minute post-show talkback.
About Toast Her
Synopsis: A one-woman clown show about mental health created and performed by UNC Professional Actor Training Program alum Hayley Cartee.
About Empty Fullness: Meditations on Death & Life
Synopsis: In April 2024, PlayMakers resident dramaturg Adam Versényi and his sister, Andrea, take their 94-year-old mother, Dinny, to Switzerland for a medically assisted death. As he reflects on his memories of his mother, on their journey to Switzerland, and on his relationship with loss, this piece also acts as Versényi’s exploration of life and death. Unable to exist without each other, life gives death “a full emptiness and an empty fullness.”