Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U.Posted in Articles, Arts, Autobiography, Media Archive, United States on 2014-10-24 12:08Z by Steven |
Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U.
The Salem Statesman-Journal
Salem, Oregon
2014-10-13
Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, Fine Arts & Culture Writer
Damaris Webb will debut her one-woman play “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre, Willamette University, 900 State St. According to the box office, the performance Oct. 24 is sold out, but the recently-added performance Oct. 25 has many tickets available.
Using Jenny Willis from “The Jeffersons” as a guide, Webb will narrate her experience of living in an interracial family with storytelling, dance, song and puppetry. The play asks what it means to be black, but it’s themes of abandonment, belonging, fear and acceptance, are universal.
“Hopefully, telling my story will create space for others to unpack and breathe around their own varied identities,” Webb said…
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