FREEDOM TRAIN PRODUCTIONS and

FIRE! NEW PLAY FESTIVAL presents:

The Beat is your last best hope for salvation

by Derek Lee McPhatter

138 South Oxford Street

BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene

$5 Suggested Donation
Subway 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q to Atlantic Ave

D, M, N, R to Pacific Street

C to Lafayette Ave G to Fulton St

ABOUT THE NEW WORK

Directed by

Featuring:

Shydel James*, Fatima Quander*, and Penni Danielle Tinsley*

Tru Believers know the Musicship Megarhythmic is on its way to save them from the End of the World, but you can’t get on if you can’t get down, and somebody done stole the beat. Trudy thinks her boy-crazed brother may be the troublemaker in question. And unless she can literally “straighten things out” between her brother and his latest love, the Musicship may just groove on by without them. Reaching into a transcendental realm of underground dance music, Bring the Beat Back is an experimental work of music-drama.

Listen to Derek's Story Corps interview on P-Funk, Octavia Butler, and his approach to sci-fi. Come early to the show and hear his full interview starting at 7PM.

TALK BACK HOSTS

8/5: Sheree Renee Thomas, Editor of Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

8/6: Kenyon Farrow, Contributor, Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Produced by Freedom Train Productions, FIRE! New Play Festival 2009 presents new political theatre featuring black queer protagonists. The work collectively covers a spectrum of human struggle and culture. Major funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, and S/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.

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