Theatre of War to Present THE SERPENT DREAMS OF A RED RAINBOW

BAX WILL HOST AFRO-FUTURIST ALLEGORY, "THE SERPENT DREAMS OF A RED RAINBOW"

FEBRUARY 13

"Robin Hood....with black people."

Conceived/ Directed/Sound Design by: CHRISTOPHER-RASHEE STEVENSON

PERFORMANCE: FEBRUARY AT 8PM. Show has a runtime of 1hr 50minutes. BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange)- 421 5th Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11215

$5/online

$10/at door

Original Music by: JOHN FELICIANO + LEORA MANDEL

Choreography by: ADAMA IDEOZU + DAMANI POMPEY

COLLAGIST: TAMARA RENEE DAVIDSON

Text by: Federico Garcia Lorca, William Carlos Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones), James Baldwin, Emily Dickinson, Jean Genet, Bertolt Brecht, Willie Lynch, Edward Lear, and Christopher-Rashee Stevenson

THE SERPENT DREAMS OF A RED RAINBOW is a theatrical collage of found text, sound, and objects arranged in a fevered attempt to reconstruct the events of the Nat Turner slave rebellion interweaving movement & imagery from the Robin Hood lore to spin a yarn at once mythic and viscerally current.The kaleidoscopic account of a Robin Hood-esque figure called "the serpent", his followers, and their brutal, ritualistic assault against the privileged class. Here there be avenging outlaws, a batshit master&mistress, singing orange trees, witches, narcotic plums, and existential dogs.

Christopher-Rashee Stevenson is a freelance director, playwright, and performance artist from Baltimore whose work has been featured at arts venues such as JACK, the Millennium Film Workshop, NURTUREart Gallery, Alchemical Theatre Lab, and the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute.