Pearl Cleage was Eclipse Theatre's 2007 featured playwright and we are
proud to present the Chicago premiere of her latest play. Inspired by the
long line of mourners who came by Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their
respects to Mrs. Coretta Scott King, A Song for Coretta introduces five
fictional African-American women, aged 17 to 57, waiting in the rain to say
their final good-byes. Cleage shows the impact that Mrs. King had on the lives of
these women, and the connections that they build with one another through her
memory and legacy.
Eclipse Theatre Company's online post-show discussion:
Friday photo rescue
From Total Eclipse 2009 (our annual benefit), this is a reading from Jeffrey Sweet’s play The Action Against Sol Schumann, presented as part of the 2010 featured playwright selection process and featuring ensemble members Steven Fedoruk, CeCe Klinger, Nora Fiffer and myself. The process is almost complete – we’ll have some exciting news to announce by mid-July [...]
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Separation/Insulation
In preparation for our forthcoming show SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, now in rehearsals, I had gone through many reviews of the John Guare play; and many had referenced THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe. “Transcendent…magical…a masterwork that captures New York as Tom Wolfe did …” as Frank Rich wrote in his review of [...]
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Watch scenes from A Song for Coretta
Stagechannel.com has two video clips of scenes from A Song for Coretta – click the images below to watch. In the first scene, Zora (Niccole Thurman) interviews Helen (TayLar) about her memory of Mrs. King: In scene two, Helen (TayLar) and Keisha (Kristy Johnson) have a hard time seeing eye to eye across the generation gap: [...]
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Friday photo rescue
From the currently-running, Jeff-Recommended A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage – I promise the whole show isn’t this sad, but this moment between Keisha (Kristy Johnson, left) and Mona Lisa (Kelly Owens) is beautiful:
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Eclipse Theatre Company's online post-show discussion:
From Total Eclipse 2009 (our annual benefit), this is a reading from Jeffrey Sweet’s play The Action Against Sol Schumann, presented as part of the 2010 featured playwright selection process and featuring ensemble members Steven Fedoruk, CeCe Klinger, Nora Fiffer and myself. The process is almost complete – we’ll have some exciting news to announce by mid-July [...]
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In preparation for our forthcoming show SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, now in rehearsals, I had gone through many reviews of the John Guare play; and many had referenced THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe. “Transcendent…magical…a masterwork that captures New York as Tom Wolfe did …” as Frank Rich wrote in his review of [...]
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Stagechannel.com has two video clips of scenes from A Song for Coretta – click the images below to watch. In the first scene, Zora (Niccole Thurman) interviews Helen (TayLar) about her memory of Mrs. King: In scene two, Helen (TayLar) and Keisha (Kristy Johnson) have a hard time seeing eye to eye across the generation gap: [...]
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From the currently-running, Jeff-Recommended A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage – I promise the whole show isn’t this sad, but this moment between Keisha (Kristy Johnson, left) and Mona Lisa (Kelly Owens) is beautiful:
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Eclipse Theatre's 2009 Celebration Series Season
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