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Performance schedule:
Saturday, August 9 at 5:15pm Wednesday, August 13 at 9:30pm Saturday, August 16 at 2:15pm Monday, August 18 at 3:00pm Friday, August 22 at 9:15pm
Riffs on Race, Love, and War: The Musical
Presented by Chenyaka Productions at The New York International Fringe Festival, FringeNYC, A Production of The Present Company
Directed by KEITH JOHNSTON Book by KAREN D. TAYLOR Music by various artists
Featuring Mumia Abu-Jamal performing Spoken Word and singing in a special voice-over
with Tulani Kinard and the Riffs on Race, Love, and War Music Warriors: Rasul A-Salaam, Kelvyn Bell, Chenzira, Steven Kroon, Marcus Persiani, Lonnie Plaxico, and Cindy Rainne
Lighting Design by Greg Williams Sound Design by Tom Morse
Riffs on Race, Love, and War: The Musical sounds a clarion call for unity, compassion, and transcendence. Part social commentary, part African American-Barbadian family history, Riffs on Race, Love, and War is a powerful 90-minute play blending spoken-word poetry, Jazz, Rock, and Gospel to inspire a future of freedom, justice, and equality. Riffs features Tulani Kinardand Mumia Abu-Jamal, speaking from the stage for the first time ever in a special voice-over.Mumia Abu-Jamal is a prolific author, journalist, social commentator, and an American prisoner wrongly convicted for the 1981 murder of a police officer. Mumia did not receive a fair trial by a jury of his peers. Originally sentenced to death in 1982, in 2012 the ruling was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole. The New York Times previously described him as “perhaps the world’s best known death-row inmate.”
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Flamboyan Theatre at the Clemente 107 Suffolk Street New York, NY
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