BANANA BOAT PRODUCTIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY REVIVAL OF MAMMA DECEMBA OPENS MAY 4
Full casting has been introduced for the Banana Boat Productions and New Views Theatre Firm New York revival of Nigel D. Moffatt’s Caribbean drama Mamma Decemba, which can open at The New Views Theatre Studio on Thursday Could 4 for a restricted run of eight performances.
The present will run from Thursday Could 4 by way of Sunday Could 7, and from Wednesday Could 10 by way of Saturday Could 13, with all performances at 7pm besides the Sunday Could 7 matinee efficiency at 2pm.
The three-member solid of Mamma Decemba is comprised of Paula Galloway, Christopher Laing and two-time Audelco Award nominee Dianne Dixon.
Merlina Wealthy, Inventive Director of Banana Boat Productions, will direct.
Set in England in the course of the Eighties, Moffat’s comedy- drama was the winner of Britain’s 1985 Samuel Beckett Award, sponsored by the Royal Courtroom Theater and Channel 4.
Manufacturing notes describe the play as “a bittersweet story that raises questions concerning the true nature of lifelong relationships, as an aged Jamaican girl residing in England (Galloway) finds herself widowed, jobless and seemingly abandoned by her youngsters in her waning years. Her makes an attempt to deal with her rising solitude contain hauntingly trustworthy, steadily humorous, and typically painful reflections on her previous, particularly the dying of her husband John (Laing). Sharing in her most personal moments is her greatest and maybe solely good friend, Mertel (Dixon).”
Paula Galloway has appeared in New York and regionally in each dramatic and musical productions together with SISTAS- The Musical (Off Broadway), Shakespeare’s A lot Ado about Nothing and As You Like It in addition to A Raisin in The Solar, The Coloured Museum, Pippin, The Wizard Of Oz, Smokey Joe’s Café and The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s A Christmas Carol in Harlem. Mamma Decemba will mark her Banana Boat Productions/New Views Theatre Firm debut.
Gospel singer, actor, musician and songwriter Christopher Laing will make his skilled New York stage debut in Mamma Decemba. He started his performing profession singing in church and performing in quite a few college performs in his native Jamaica earlier than happening to supply a number of gospel albums as an grownup. His music Step on the Enemy-Trample the Dragon was a serious hit on the Caribbean Gospel circuit. He was not too long ago solid in his first main movie function within the drama Doomed Village, and might shortly be seen in tv’s New York Murder.
Dianne Dixon is a two-time Audelco Award nominee for Greatest Supporting Actress for the musical Jamaica and for the drama Dinner on the Manse. She has additionally appeared on the New York stage in Haiti’s Kids of God, Not About Eve (New York and The Nationwide Black Theater Competition, Winston Salem, North Carolina), Falling in Love With Mr. Dellamort and Flambeaux (Off Broadway) and within the New York staged studying premiere of Trey Anthony’s How Black Moms Say I Love You at The Public Theater, directed by Tony award winner
Kenny Leon. Her movie and tv credit embrace the impartial characteristic
RURI, North Shore Tv’s Echoes of a Misplaced Son and HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness.
The manufacturing’s director, Merlina Wealthy–who produced the play a number of years in the past–is happy to be working with a brand new solid on this revival of a chunk which she believes is very well timed in mild of the covid pandemic and the worldwide lockdown that resulted.
As Wealthy places it, “I’m actually wanting ahead to working with Paula, Christopher and Dianne on this revisit to the world of Mamma Decemba, as a result of I imagine that the play tackles many points we have been pressured to confront in the course of the pandemic, resembling loneliness, anxiousness, isolation, regrets and our personal mortality. It precipitated us to take inventory of our lives, to rethink life selections we made, and issues we’d have completed in a different way. Mamma Decemba is a girl dealing with all this and extra. And though it was written so a few years in the past, the play feels very very similar to a narrative for this second. We’re very excited to see how audiences will obtain it this second time round.”
Co-producer of Mamma Decemba is Melody Brooks of New Views Theatre Firm and Manufacturing Stage Supervisor is Soyini Crenshaw.
The New Views Theatre Firm Studio is situated at 458 West thirty seventh St. at tenth Ave., New York, NY 10018.