Production History

1996 - full production - Howard University

Awards/Acknowledgements

1^st place award ECTC Playwriting Competition

Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest stage-play competition

African American Culture

Much of the depth of African American culture and identity grows out of the ancestral context of the ringshout, of an expression of reverence for those ancestors who have gone before. In the cadence of the sermons and the stories, in the motion of the sacred holy dance, in the sound of the lined hymn, in the midst of the congregational song, the rhythmic genius and the cultural core of the congregants is expressed.

And, in the offering of these core expressions, the worshipers affirm life under the weight of dire circumstance; they teach coming generations to assume responsibility for their survival by mastering the dialectical linking of joy and sorrow and of mind and body.

-Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1989)

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.