/news-archive/tag/branden-jacobs-jenkins/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:43:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/02/12/octoroon/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:43:29 +0000 /news/?p=69342 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock theater presents “An Octoroon”]]> An Octoroon 聽Feb. 21-25 in the Haislip Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock campus, 5900 University Dr. An Octoroon offers audiences a provocative, funny, and surprisingly poignant examination of race in 21st-century America. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, recipient of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play,聽cleverly exposes the roles that we play in maintaining the melodramatic travesty of 鈥渨hiteness鈥� in contemporary America, and how race still functions to keep someone in her 鈥減lace.鈥� (The word 鈥渙ctoroon鈥� means 鈥渙ne-eighth black.鈥�) Content includes mature language and themes and is not recommended for children. Performances are as follows:

• Wednesday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 25, 2:30 p.m.

Pre-show discussion panels with university faculty on melodrama, Louisiana Creole culture, racial stereotypes in popular media, and other issues relevant to An Octoroon and our times will take place 6:45-7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 1:45-2:15 p.m. on Sunday. Post-show discussions with director Stacy Pendergraft and the actors will be after the Thursday and Friday shows. Ticket are $10 for general admission; $5 for faculty, staff and students; and $5 for military and seniors. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the theater鈥檚 box office from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, by calling 501-569-3456, or online at 聽/theatre/season/ Pre-show speakers and topics:

• Wednesday, Feb. 21 – 鈥淩acial Stereotypes vs. Self-representation in American Popular Media and the Visual Arts,鈥� with Brad Cushman, Edma Delgado, and Erin Fehr, 6:45-7:15 p.m.
• Thursday, Feb. 22 –聽鈥淚ntersections of Race, Gender, and Performance鈥� Candrice Jones, Kristina McAbee, and Jana McAuliffe, 6:45-7:15 p.m.
• Friday, Feb. 23 –聽鈥淎ntebellum Creole Culture and Melodrama鈥� with Brian K. Mitchell and Lawrence D. Smith, 6:45-7:15 p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 25 – 鈥淟egacies of the Delta Slavery Economy鈥� with John Kirk, 1:45-2:15 p.m.

]]> /news-archive/2017/10/27/african-american-film-theatre/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:06:07 +0000 /news/?p=68366 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock class to cover history of African-American film and theatre]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock鈥檚 latest class for the 2018 spring semester will cover the history of African-American film and theatre from 1820 to the present. The three-credit hour course, THEA 4340-01 African American Theatre and Film, will take place from 3:05-4:20 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays during spring 2018. Using performance texts as a springboard, the class will look at key artists, companies, and movements to analyze and discuss concerns and representational strategies in African-American dramatic works across various eras and in different media. 鈥淲e will engage with the critical discourse surrounding dramatic performances by African-American artists, and consider how stage and screen are used in writing, representing, and preserving history,鈥� said Dr. Lawrence Smith, assistant professor in the Theatre Arts and Dance department. The class explores many plays and films, including works by Amiri Baraka, Carlyle Brown, Charles Burnett, Alice Childress, Julie Dash, Lydia Diamond, Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Spike Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Oscar Micheaux, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange, Bert Williams and George Walker, and August Wilson. The class also counts toward the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock minor in race and ethnicity. For more information, contact Dr. Lawrence Smith at ldsmith11@ualr.edu.]]>