Watts Village Theater Company's 20th Anniversary Season continues this June with IT'S A KRIP HOP NATION (where are my crippled homies at!) which plays June 3, 4, 10, 11 at 8pm. For tickets:
http://watts-village-theater.simpletix.com/Event/26782/IT-S-A-KRIP-HOP-NATION/#ShowDetails
A theatrical call to action to create access and awareness for performers with disabilities, is comprised of source material from our former Co-Founder, Lynn Manning, with additional support by Donald Jolly. Informed ...
Watts Village Theater Company's 20th Anniversary Season continues this June with IT'S A KRIP HOP NATION (where are my crippled homies at!) which plays June 3, 4, 10, 11 at 8pm. For tickets:
http://watts-village-theater.simpletix.com/Event/26782/IT-S-A-KRIP-HOP-NATION/#ShowDetails
A theatrical call to action to create access and awareness for performers with disabilities, is comprised of source material from our former Co-Founder, Lynn Manning, with additional support by Donald Jolly. Informed and inspired by interviews with people with disabilities acquired through violence or accident, this play chronicles the lives of two recently disabled performers, Reggie "Rough Rider" Dunmeyer and Terresa Lopes, as they battle ablism in their attempt to break into the mainstream hip‐hop music industry.
IT'S A KRIP HOP NATION (where are my crippled homies at!) will truly remind us: Disability like race, gender, class and queerness is not only apart of our identity, it is reflective of our community and culture. Artistic Integrity and Talent involves all of our identities to tell a universal story that invites participation and shared experience. It’s about to get real.
This advance presentation of the work in process will be an accessible-to-all production, and thanks to the National Arts and Disability Center, there will be ASL Interpretation and Audio Description services at every performance.
Special Performances:
June 10th - From the Bay to the City Angels - a live stream of our performance at the Rosenthal Theatre in Los Angeles with the Lions Center for the Blind in Oakland.
June 11th - Double Hitter - Leroy Moore, Jesse Djquad Morin and PoPoets of Poor Magazine at 6pm, followed by Watts Village closing performance of IT'S A KRIP HOP NATION (where are my crippled homies at!) 8pm.
IT'S A KRIP HOP NATION is made possible by the support of California Humanities California Stories Project, The 2015 Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation BEST Award, The National Endowment for the Arts.
Presented at the Rosenthal Theatre in Association with Inner-City Arts and the Creative Collaborators.