Tigonie
32m
A "changed" man's sordid past comes back to haunt him unexpectedly after 30 years of bliss. Two people's past lives impacted by drug addiction, human trafficking, incest, and revenge explode unexpectedly onto the stage in a way that neither would never had imagined.
Content Advisory: This production contains adult language, mature themes concerning mental health or illness, and depictions of physical violence, murder, death, or dying.
About the Playwright: Levi Frazier, Jr. is a published author, actor, playwright, director and producer. He is co-ô€€€founder of Beale Street Repertory Company and Blues City Cultural Center in Memphis, TN, where he now serves as Artistic Director. Levi was an instructor for Department of Theatre and Communication Arts at the University of Memphis and for the English Department at State Technical Institute at Memphis.Levi has written over fifty plays, musicals, or screenplays, and his work has been produced all over the country including New York, Chicago, Miami, Austin, Hollywood, and Memphis. His play, A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD WRIGHT, was produced, by invitation, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France for the African-Americans and Europe International Conference. His musical, Down on Beale Street had a run off-off Broadway at the Richard Allen Center in New York. In addition, his play, FOR OUR FREEDOM & YOURS was produced for the Memphis In May International Festival and, for the International Conference on Ira Aldridge in Lodz, Poland.
Director: Lawrence Blackwell is a consummate theatre artist, a Renaissance man of histrionics whose skills and talents on stage as well as backstage have made him an invaluable commodity wherever he has traveled. Former Assistant Professor of African-American Theatre and Performance at the University of Memphis, he not only taught and engaged his students in the art of theatre, he modeled theatre by his own work in theatre outside the classroom in the community as an actor, writer, director and administrator.