New Play about Jacob Lawrence - African American Painter
Paul Mullin
I am currently seeking a high-caliber, professional theatre to produce my
play THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT. The play was commissioned by AHA! Theatre
in Seattle, but the theatre is closing its doors due to unrelated financial
difficulties.
Contact me at: pmu...@wolfenet.com for more information
Here's a synopsis:
THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT: a synopsis
The year is 1930; the place, Harlem. As part of the Great Migration of
Southern Blacks to the industrial centers of the North, young Jacob
Lawrence finds himself smack-dab in the middle of the world's unofficial
capital of Negro Culture. His mother, in order to keep him safe while she
works, enrolls the shy thirteen year-old boy in an after-school arts
program run by the enthusiastic young painter Charles Alston; and it is
there that Jake first learns to interpret the dramatic, vibrant world
around him through color, line and form.
THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT traces the painter's artistic development from
these primary moments through his now famous historical series including
Toussaint L'ouverture, The Migration Series, and Harriet And The Promised
Land, and further, through his bout with depression, his struggle to define
himself as an artist of color during the increasingly militant civil rights
movement, and his harrowing portrayal of ultimate violence in the Hiroshima
Series. The play arrives at its finale with Lawrence's ongoing Builder's
Theme, his ultimate affirmation of hope which he continues work on as he
approaches his eightieth birthday.
Through multimedia, song, dance and drama, THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT
paints on stage the story of the man who dedicated himself to painting the
untold stories of America.
Paul Mullin
I am currently seeking a high-caliber, professional theatre to produce my
play THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT. The play was commissioned by AHA! Theatre
in Seattle, but the theatre is closing its doors due to unrelated financial
difficulties.
Contact me at: pmu...@wolfenet.com for more information
Synopsis to follow:
Paul Mullin
I am currently seeking a high-caliber, professional theatre to produce my
play THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT. The play was commissioned by AHA! Theatre
in Seattle, but the theatre is closing its doors due to unrelated financial
difficulties.
Contact me at: pmu...@wolfenet.com for more information
Here's a synopsis:
THE JACOB LAWRENCE PROJECT: a synopsis
Paul Mullin
Sorry. I screwed up. I'm new to this.
Paul Mullin
Sorry, I screwed up. I'm new to this.