the motown project at The Public Theate

the motown project
JANUARY 8-17 (Running Time: 60 Minutes)
Streaming On-Demand at publictheater.org
By Alicia Hall Moran (U.S.)
Presented by Joe's Pub

Musical traditions yearning for each other across race, class, and nation grace Alicia Hall Moran's meditation on the Motown songbook - a cinematic, movement-based aria fusing Sugar Pie Honey Bunch with Mozart while Marvin Gaye's lyrical pathos finds solemnity in Purcell. Featuring Thomas Flippin (guitar), Steven Herring (vocals), Barrington Lee (vocals), and Reggie Washington (bass) in collaboration with choreographer Amy Hall Garner, the motown project reimagines Motor City poetics in a study of desire and infatuation only soul and opera embodied by one chanteuse could endure.