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The Department of Theater and the VOICES Program present:

THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III

Directed by Baron Kelly
Assistant Directed by Vero Lecocq '13
Set Design by Gabriel Rodriguez '13
Costume Design by Emily Adams '13
Lighting Design by Colin Bills '98
Choreography by Clark Moore '13
Music Consultation by Hafiz Shabazz
Stage Management by Vero Lecocq '13

Featuring:
Samantha Azinge '12
Bree-Ana Craine '13
Joshua Echebiri '14
Chris Holland '11
Ben Page '12
Rick Sawyer
Stewart Towle '12
Ryan Williams-French '12


May 18 & 19 @ 8PM
May 20 @ 2 PM
Bentley Theater
FREE ADMISSION!

In 1821, forty years before Lincoln ended slavery, and fifty years before black  
Americans earned the right to vote, the first black theatrical group in the country,  
the African Company of New York, was putting
on plays in a downtown Manhattan theatre to which both black and white audiences  
flocked. Yet the drama of this progressive group reached further than their stage....



Praise for AFRICAN COMPANY:

"The personaland the historical, the comic and the angry propels THE AFRICAN COMPANY...  
theatrical and social concerns entwine with powerful resonances to today... Mr.  
Brown is a writer with a distinct voice and a powerful story to tell."   Washington  
Post.

"What makes THE AFRICAN COMPANY so effective is the way in which the playwright  
not only suggests the New York of 1821, and the particular circumstances of "freed"  
blacks in that era, but even suggests their angers, concerns and tensions."  NY  
Post.