Upcity Service(s)
Description
Jacqueeda needs four dollars and sixty cents to go to her mother’s boyfriend’s funeral, and buy him a headstone. She needs to make a detour to the racetrack to earn the rest of the money. She is looking for help from her friend Poppy. Poppy is looking for Jacqueeda, because he has learned from the scriptures that are the New York Post that a local Deacon has won the lottery. This transpires on the street corner where the Deacon’s Lincoln Continental is parked. They try to accomplish their tasks early in the morning while; Canute, a West Indian man, goes about working his many jobs, including caring for Muhammad’s rug, and Sister Berring tries to build a shelter, for someone. This play also has music cascading down onto the street corner, from eight televisions in windows above. The play is a new look at a secularized service about a search for service.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Author
Dominic TaylorDominic Taylor is a director, playwright and the head of Penumbra's OKRA New Play Development Program. Most recently, Mr. Taylor directed BLACK NATIVITY: A SEASON FOR CHANGE at Penumbra. Other select directing credits include the new opera FRESH FAUST at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, THE NEGROES BURIAL GROUND at the Kitchen, NYC., UPPA CREEK at Dixon Place, and Ride THE RHYTHM in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. He is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota where he has directed THE WIZ, NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA and EXECUTION OF JUSTICE. Mr. Taylor has worked with Crossroads Theater, Rites and Reasons Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. He is an alumni member of New Dramatists and holds a Bachelor's and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brown University
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 6/1/2005 |
| Pages | 80 |
| ISBN | 9780881452655 |
Special Notes
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com
