/news-archive/tag/kristina-mcabee/ 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.

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