UNTIL THE FLOOD WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DAEL ORLANDERSMITH
Artistic Team Writer/Performer Director Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer and Original Music Video Designer
FESTIVAL HALL Dael Orlandersmith Neel Keller Takeshi Kata Kaye Voyce Mary Louise Geiger Justin Ellington Nicholas Hussong
June 3, 8:00pm; June 4, 2:00pm and 8:00pm; June 5, 2:00pm; June 6, 7:00pm 1 hour, 15 minutes Performed without an intermission
This production contains adult themes, language, and references to violence.
Program Note On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot and killed by Darren Wilson on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. In the spring of 2015 Dael was invited by the Repertory Theater of St. Louis to create a piece that responded, in some way, to the killing and civic upheaval that was engulfing the area.
own histories. It is especially meaningful to us to perform the show here in South Carolina, which is the home of many generations of both our families, the ground which holds our ancestors, and the history which has shaped, in ways we understand and ways we don’t, our understanding of the world. Thank you for being here.
She chose to meet with residents and ask them how the killing and social unraveling had affected them. Their responses were emotional and deeply personal. Their words revealed the family histories, life experiences, and cultural consciousnesses that led people, all living within a few miles of each other, to strongly held and wildly divergent beliefs about what caused the tragic events of that day.
- Dael Orlandersmith and Neel Keller
We have had the great fortune to revisit Until The Flood many times over the last seven years. Working on the piece over such an extended period has allowed us to reflect on the origins of our
Originally commissioned and produced by THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS; Steven Woolf, Artistic Director; Mark Bernstein, Managing Director New York Off-Broadway premiere produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner interviews Dael Orlandersmith at 5:00 pm on Sunday, June 5, at Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston, 66 George St.
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