SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14,10:00 PM
THEATRE OF WAR (THEATRE)

Theatre of War, Little Wing loosely uses Octavia E. Butler’s final novel, "Fledgling" as source material for a startling theatrical exploration of survival and self-preservation. Also combining originally devised text, found text, object, 70s Blaxploitation films such as Blacula (1972) and Ganja & Hess (1973), movement, as well as popular tropes drenched in the tradition of gothic horror, we seek to use the vampire genre as means to create and explore this hallucinatory meditation of Black Otherness in present/past day America. Little Wing is an existential vampire dram-edy pushing the limits of what it means to be human and how far one is willing to go to completely purge oneself of ignorance and confusion. Featuring: *Jehan O. Young, Jonathan Schenk, Lilja Owsley, Chet King, Robert M. Stevenson, and *Merritt Janson [*Members of Actors Equity Association]

Christopher-Rashee Stevenson (Director/Adaptor) is a writer-director from Baltimore. Was recently seen as performer in Wilderence's immersive work Elgin Park alongside Drew Petersen. His reworking of Amiri Baraka’s cult classic “Dutchman” enjoyed a one night only showing at the Wild Project in November and at the Tank last February. A recent alum of Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab ‘18. His work as director and performer has been featured at The Performing Garage, The Tank, JACK, HERE Arts Center, The Actor’s Studio, American Repertory Theater, Millennium Film Workshop, Lincoln Center Education, LaMaMa, and the Eubie Blake Jazz Institute.

Octavia E. Butler (Author) is known for blending science fiction with African-American spiritualism. Her novels include 'Patternmaster,' 'Kindred,' 'Dawn' and 'Parable of the Sower. Her first novel, Patternmaster (1976), would ultimately become one of the installments in the four-volume Patternist series. Butler went on to write several other novels, including Kindred (1979) as well as Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998), of the Parable series. She continued to write and publish until her death on February 24, 2006, in Seattle, Washington.