Culture Project to Present Hip-Hop Play 'Break of Dawn'

Culture Project has announced that it will present the world premiere of Till The Break of Dawn, a new play written and directed by Hip-Hop theater icon Danny Hoch.  The 11 character work begins performances September 4 at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street) on Manhattan's Lower East Side for an eight-week limited engagement.  An official opening night is set for September 13, 2007.

"In what may well be the first epic and seminal work of Hip-Hop generation dramatic literature, Till The Break of Dawn is the first commercial production of Hip-Hop in straight-play form, from one of the pioneers of the field.  Danny Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000 and continues to be one of the loudest voices in the theater for that generation.  Till The Break of Dawn also marks Mr. Hoch's first new written work to be presented in New York since 1998," as described in press materials.

In Till The Break of Dawn, Gibran, an internet hip-hop activist, leads a group of his New York friends on a trip to Havana to attend a festival.  They've always been radical at home, but in Cuba, radical means something else.  So does Hip-Hop, and so do they.  Watch as hip-hop politics, South Bronx angst and Cuban reality all clash in this raucous and provocative play from the author of Some People and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop.

Allan Buchman stated, "With this play, Danny Hoch brings his considerable genius to the stage as eleven actors portray characters we have grown to know and love.  In Till The Break of Dawn, the brash outcry of today's injustice meets the weathered heroes of yesterday's resistance movement in, where else, but Cuba?"

The Abrons Arts Center is located at 466 Grand Street.  Nearby subway stops are the F at East Broadway or Delancey, the D, B or Q at Grand Street and the J or M at Essex Street. 

"For more than a decade, Culture Project has presented award-winning theatre at the intersection between politics and culture, bringing essential social, political and moral issues to life on a national stage. The Exonerated, Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel, Guantanamo, AMAJUBA: Like Doves We Rise, many works through the IMPACT festival 2006 and, most recently, Lawrence Wright's My Trip To Al-Qaeda received their national premieres at Culture Project.  They recently presented their annual multi-disciplinary festival, Women Center Stage, which features women artists whose work calls attention to global human struggles."

Complete casting will be announced shortly.

Performances are Tuesday – Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.  Tickets are $35 ($15 for students) and are available by calling (212) 352-3101, visiting the Culture Project website or in person at the Abrons Center box office.

Visit www.cultureproject.org or www.dannyhoch.com for more information.

 

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