Claude Edison Purdy Individual Artist Festival - On The Way To Timbuktu
Claude Edison Purdy Individual Artist Festival
Claude Edison Purdy was a founding member of Penumbra who believed that an artist's greatest responsibility was to tell the truth, no matter how daunting. In his honor, this series celebrates the insightful, independent voices of contemporary black theatre, their courage and vision.
On the Way to Timbuktu written & performed by Petronia Paley, Directed by Talvin Wilks
Petronia Paley is a force in this one-woman show tracing the threads of Africa as they coil through her sense of womanhood, haunt clandestine Elizabethan romances, empower the black power beat generation, and ultimately begin to unravel one woman’s grip on reality. Perceptive, smart, and brave, On the Way to Timbuktu is a poetic journey through the life and consciousness of a black intellectual woman as she interrogates race, gender, sexuality and power.