Anyanwu's Lead Role in The Messiah Complex: Keep Soul Alive- Monday Night Reading Series
Monday, February 23at 7:30pm
The National Black Theatre: Institute for Action Arts
The Messiah ComplexWritten & Directed by Nia WitherspoonChoreography by Ni’Ja Whitson AdebanjoMusic is DJ Messiah’s escape into the now with no pasts--or so she thought. The nightclub where she works is a crossroads of the living and the dead. Or maybe the ghosts are just hallucinations from the toxic waste dumped there. Set to the beats of a live DJ, The Messiah Complex explores the queer secrets buried in the tapestries of black city life in the post-Panther era. Through confronting her own violent ghosts, DJ Messiah must come into her purpose—to finish the revolution her parents had started in the 70s. Amidst the backdrop of a crack-infested industrial wasteland, the characters of West-African mythologies emerge, villains and heroes blur, and being saved is all that matters.
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Keep Soul Alive Mondays is a reading series that showcases the works of twenty-three (23) Black Playwrights. The readings take place on the second and last Monday of every month and starts at 7:30 pm at the National Black Theatre.
Each reading is free with a suggested donation of $10.RSVP - to this event to be added to the list
