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THE FLYCATCHER’S IDENTITY

FABIAN BURRELL

In Association with

RAMBA PRODUCTIONS

Presents

THE FLYCATCHER’S IDENTITY

Written by P. Chudi Uwazurike, PhD

Directed by Marcia Forbes-Shannon

Stage Managed by Calvin Mitchell

 

Celebrating Nigeria’s Highlife music and the redemption of the human spirit!

Nigeria’s Art & Culture takes center stage during the celebration of Nigeria’s Independence as the curtain rises on The Flycatcher’s Identity (Off Broadway) and Fela! on Broadway.

 

New York, NY (September 16, 2009) – The excitement is building as The Flycatcher’s Identity leaps from the page to the stage at Grand Theater @ Producers’ Club, 358 West 44th Street, New York City.  Thursday, October 15, 2009 is the official opening night.
 
Producer, Fabian Burrell, in association with Ramba Productions presents this timeless masterpiece which celebrates the redemption of the human spirit laced with an originally composed Highlife music score.   Written by P. Chudi Uwazurike, PhD, the play unfolds through the mystical eyes of the Earth Mother and opens at John F. Kennedy’s International Airport but crosses the Atlantic to present day Lagos, Nigeria as a young woman searches for the father who abandoned her and her mother and fled to his homeland during the era of the Civil Rights Movement.  Music score composed by Cameroon-Nigerian Highlife maestro Ladi Kong of “This Kind of Man” fame.
 
Award-winning playwright and New York-based professor, Uwazurike, has to his credit such plays as the Niger State Drama Festival 1st Prize winner House of Little Regrets (1980), Prisoner of the Kalakiri and The Fire and the Goddess.  He is also the author of the novels, Yesterday was Silent; Nwuzoh Nwannah & The Song of a Thousand Tunes and the collection Playing Off-Off Broadway & Other Essays, Plays, Poetry & a Novel, 1974-1984.
 

The director, Marcia Forbes-Shannon comes to the production with a fresh approach and a keen ear for the Nigerian dialect.  Her impressive theatre arts training at the prestigious Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica brought her work to the attention of the producer.  She has received many awards as an Artistic Director in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s Speech, Music and Drama Festival, and continues to collect accolades for her original plays, directing and set designs.

 

The cast includes:

Nathalie Dispagne, Stacey Dotson,* Marsha Hamilton, Daralyn Jay, Kristen Kress, Omar M’Sai, Tomiké Lee Ogugua, Lee Marvin Sebastiany, Jonathan Williams

Crew: Stage Management/Set Design/Sound Design/Lighting Design & Drumming – Calvin Mitchell; Costume Designer – Bonnie Sandy; Marketing & Promotions - Aziza PR, Deirdre McIntosh-Brown, Jose Toure

 

The show will have a limited engagement from October 15 – November 1, 2009 and will continue to stage productions throughout the nation en route to Nigeria, Spring 2010.
 

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*Actor appears courtesy Actor’s Equity Association.
 

For interviews and press review tickets, please contact:

Aziza Public Relations

860-294-9277

azizapr@gmail.com

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