Directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap, “Reparations,” script and music by Joseph Edwards, will premiere at Morgan State University and run from April 10 through April 19 in the Murphy Fine Arts Center’s Turpin-Lamb Theater.
A successful lawyer takes a case defending an insurance provider whose ancestor company insured enslaved Africans. He encounters an Ancient Ancestor Spirit with a mission to redirect his lost soul. What happens when divine intervention meets denial and arrogance? Dunlap and her artistic team craft the show masterfully through the edgy delivery, spectacle, music and dance.
According to Joseph Edwards, “The goal of creating such a project is to use the arts to create a local, regional and national dialogue around reparations and reconciliation. Furthermore, developing the play at an HBCU , of which many were founded as a form of reparations, would be an ideal environment. Morgan State University’s Theater Arts Department and the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University are partnering on this Community Engagement Project.” Edwards was influenced by Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations, edited by Dr. Raymond A. Winbush.
Gen’l Admission: $25 MSU Students, Faculty, Staff: $15 Seniors & Non-MSU Students & Group rate for Gen’l Admission (10+): $20
Student Matinee- Student Group rate: $10
Friday, April 10, 2015 @ 7:30 PM -Opening Night $40.00 (includes Reception)
Saturday, April 11 & 18, 2015 @ 2:00 & 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 12 & 19, 2015 @ 3:00 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015 @ 10:30 PM (Student Matinee)
Friday, April 17, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: The Murphy Fine Arts Center box office: (443)885-4440, or visit www.murphyfineartscenter.org