UNCLE REMUS, His Life and Times, as told to Aaron Coleman
*Selected for 2019 Primary Stages/ESPA Drills Series
THERE'S MORE TO THE TALE THAN ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH.
Uncle Remus’s Brer Rabbit folktales have enchanted Americans for over a century—no one more so than Aaron Coleman, a writer trying to find his own story in today’s world. Needing inspiration, Aaron finds himself in a plantation cabin in the late 1800s, face-to-face with the legend himself. As Remus starts spinning his wild stories, conjuring up a fantastical world of rabbits and foxes, he also reveals his untold life growing up in the antebellum South—a life that inspired his tales of family, courage, and survival.
UNCLE REMUS, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, AS TOLD TO AARON COLEMAN is a new play about visiting the stories of the past to understand the present—and reveals the ultimate truths about being a black storyteller in America.
THERE'S MORE TO THE TALE THAN ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH.
Uncle Remus’s Brer Rabbit folktales have enchanted Americans for over a century—no one more so than Aaron Coleman, a writer trying to find his own story in today’s world. Needing inspiration, Aaron finds himself in a plantation cabin in the late 1800s, face-to-face with the legend himself. As Remus starts spinning his wild stories, conjuring up a fantastical world of rabbits and foxes, he also reveals his untold life growing up in the antebellum South—a life that inspired his tales of family, courage, and survival.
UNCLE REMUS, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, AS TOLD TO AARON COLEMAN is a new play about visiting the stories of the past to understand the present—and reveals the ultimate truths about being a black storyteller in America.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAIRIES GONE?
*Finalist -- The Lark's Playwrights' Week, 2019
Greenwich Village. 1968. In a jail cell, two strangers meet after being arrested during a raid of a local gay bar. One is a Southern Black man who moved to New York to escape a world of intolerance. The other is an extravagant white man who escapes into old movies and gin martinis. Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the nascent Gay Liberation Movement, the two men form a burgeoning relationship, seeking connection in a society built to keep them apart.
Greenwich Village. 1968. In a jail cell, two strangers meet after being arrested during a raid of a local gay bar. One is a Southern Black man who moved to New York to escape a world of intolerance. The other is an extravagant white man who escapes into old movies and gin martinis. Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the nascent Gay Liberation Movement, the two men form a burgeoning relationship, seeking connection in a society built to keep them apart.
IMELDA: A Musical
Book by Sachi Oyama
Music by Nathan Wang
Lyrics by Aaron Coleman
Music by Nathan Wang
Lyrics by Aaron Coleman
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*Produced Off-Broadway with Pan Asian Rep, Julia Miles Theatre, 2009
*Premiere Production at East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre, 2005 The tale of the rise and fall Imelda Marcos, the infamous former First Lady of the Philippines, from beauty pageant contestant to dictator's wife. Plus her 3,000 pairs of shoes. |
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