In just a few days (end of July) a few artistic emissaries from CENTERSTAGE (Gavin and Kwame, actually) will head to Minneapolis for a weeklong workshop and reading of Marion McClinton’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Jazz—further developing the piece for its January opening here in Baltimore. Anyone in or around the Twin Cities July 29th should come catch the project; it’s part of the Fresh Ink series at Illusion Theater, supported as well by the gracious folks at the Playwrights Center. Here’s the poop:
July 29th at 8pm Toni Morrison’s Jazz
Adapted by Marion McClinton
A reading of McClinton’s beautiful adaptation of Toni Morrison’s classic, Jazz, a passionate and profound story of love and obsession, set in Harlem where Jazz was being invented and re-invented as African Americans were migrating up away from the injustices of the South and re-inventing themselves in the cities of the North.
Tickets for this production are free. Call 612-339-4944 to place your order.
