Fatherland, the multimedia one-woman show by Candice DMeza, is a deeply vulnerable exploration into the grief that comes from disconnection: disconnection from family, from culture, from homelands. Using memoir texts written by DMeza while planning her absent Haitian fathers funeral, the recorded performance combines with a full-length visual film directed by Houston native Nate Edwards (co-director of Houston rapper Tobe Ngiwes music videos), and stage directed by Eboni Bell. A merging of Haitian spirituality, song, dance, and theatrical performance, the show acts as a container for a collective grief ritualwhereby audiences are invited to participate, alongside the artist, in a ritual designed to honor the lives of our ancestors and acknowledge the complicated legacies of our personal stories.
Videos
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rotunda Theater At St. Luke's UMC (1/9 - 1/12) | ||
Over the Moon: Broadway Reimagined starring Teresa Zimmerman
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (1/17 - 1/18) | ||
Comedy of Tenors
Theatre Southwest (12/31 - 1/18) | ||
Seared
Alley Theatre (2/7 - 3/2) | ||
Mamma Mia!
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (4/8 - 4/13) | ||
& Juliet
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (1/21 - 1/26) | ||
THE WANDERERS by Anna Ziegler
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC (2/8 - 2/23) | ||
Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Alley Theatre (4/4 - 4/27) | ||
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