Rich With History and other stuff you say at a haunted house
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar Mark Russell, Founding Director Meropi Peponides & Kaneza Schaal, Co-Directors ArKtype, Festival Producer More information at utrfest.org
Rich With History and other stuff you say at a haunted house
(work-in-progress showings of a new play by Advanced Beginner Group)
Co-Created by
Marcella Murray, David Neumann & Tei Blow
Co-Commissioned by
Carolina Performing Arts and Mabou Mines
Produced by
Advanced Beginner Group and Mabou Mines
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | 7PM
Thursday, January 9, 2025 | 6PM
Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 2PM & 5:30PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025 | 2PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2035 | 6PM
Wednesday, January 15 | 6PM
Thursday, January 16 |6PM
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Mabou Mines Theater
PRICE: $15-35 / sliding scale
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Rich With History and other stuff you say at a haunted house extends the Advanced Beginner Group ensemble’s exploration of race and relationship mixed with sly humor, unexpected dances and plantation tours. Set somewhere between the cargo hold of a spaceship and a craft services table on a film shoot, David and Marcella find themselves onstage again in a cycle that has become more ritual than accident. This time, they are a crew setting up a shot in an imagined film, slowly immersing themselves in a dance of multiple takes. Is it a family dramedy? A real-estate tour? A horror film? Joined by fellow crew members Julie J and Camellia Bayle-Spence, the cast leads us on a tour of haunted spaces, ideas and interactions while never leaving the stage.
Different performers join the ‘takes’, playing and exchanging multiple roles, allowing additional layers of impact to emerge. As they invent dances to each other’s Spotify histories, David and Marcella continue a decade-long conversation about race in a space that is always shifting, but where the inextricable horror and euphoria of the unacknowledged is always there in its favorite chair, a stowaway in the basement of the spaceship. They grapple with the eerie and destructive repetition of inequality and aggressions, micro- or not…. or maybe they just stare at each other in silence, embarrassed to have forgotten their next line. We can laugh at ourselves here, right? Right?