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| MILLER-COFFMAN PRODUCTIONS Presents the WORLD PREMIERE of “BLOOD BOUNDARY” by Cherokee playwright Vicki Lynn Mooney Tulsan’s Award-Winning Play to Premiere in NYC “BLOOD BOUNDARY” by Vicki Lynn Mooney won the 2017 Native American New Play Festival in Oklahoma City and will have its World Premiere September 21st, 2017, in New York City-produced Miller-Coffman Productions and Shaved Head Media. “BLOOD BOUNDARY”, the third play in the “BROKEN HEART LAND TRILOGY,” is driven by historical events in Tulsa in the 1920s during the build up to what was later called the Tulsa Race Riots. Mooney is a Tulsa native who returned last December after 38 years of working in the New York theater community. Mooney’s first play, “CAKE AND SIPPIN’ WHISKEY,” was produced in New York City in 1984 and published in 1985. Her plays have been finalists in many nationwide playwriting contests and performed mostly in NYC and Los Angeles and a few places in between over the years. Her proudest work is the “BROKEN HEART LAND TRILOGY”, an examination of the effect the Dawes Act on a Native American mixed-blood family over three generations. Most recently, Dr. Patricia Furnish and Dr. Mark West visited Vicki in Oklahoma to shoot a segment on “BLOOD BOUNDARY” for their documentary on Marilyn Vann. Marilyn is the President of the Cherokee Freedmen Association and works with intertribal groups. “BLOOD BOUNDARY” by Cherokee playwright Vicki Lynn Mooney WHERE: THEATRE 54 @ Shetler Studios & Theatres 244 West 54th Street,12th Floor New York, NY 10019 WHEN: Sept 20th - Oct 7th CREATIVE TEAM: Vicki Lynn Mooney Playwright Tony White Director Alex Haney Stage Manager | Set & Light Design Stephen Miller Executive Producer | Assistant Director Jay Cruz Producer | Marketing & Media CAST: James Denzer as James Broughton Neil Brown as Virgil Barnes Pamela Joy as Tassie Vann Joan D. Saunders as Aunt Jane Tony White as Billy Vann / Director Jill Cook as Fain Cuddahy SYNOPSIS: “Blood Boundary" is set after World War I and before the 1921 Greenwood Massacre, formerly recalled as the Tulsa Race Riot. James Broughton arrives in Tulsa to renew contact with his Oklahoma roots before returning to study medicine in Europe. Among other surprises, he finds out that he has a previously unknown uncle, Billy Vann, and that he may have more Cherokee blood in him than he thought. Billy is a railroad porter who wants to turn the family house in Greenwood into a “hospitality” center for all races, but local tumultuous developments involving race make him conclude that he must arm himself, against the wishes of his daughter Tassie, an aspiring artist. Fain Cuddahy returns to meet her grandson Virgil, who we learn is a budding Klansman. She must teach Tassie how to defend herself against men like him. Virgil, a likable but self-centered young man twisted with hate toward blacks, in the end learns a shocking truth about himself. Balancing the family equation, the more overtly Victorian, inwardly strong great-Aunt Jane comes into the picture to attempt to mend a broken family. When she evacuates Tassie and James to Paris on a subterfuge, they learn of the terrible events back home, and realize they are the last of their bloodline to survive the Greenwood Massacre. The play is driven by historical events in 1920, taken from headlines in Mr. Smitherman’s Star and the Tulsa World. Until 2012, the Greenwood Massacre was known as the Tulsa Race Riot – it was and still remains the worst race riot in U.S. history. SHOW SCHEDULE: Preview: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 • 8PM Opening Night Thursday, September 21st, 2017 • 8PM Show Dates: Friday, September 22nd • 8PM Saturday, September 23rd • 2PM Saturday, September 23rd • 8PM Sunday, September 24th • 2PM Wednesday, September 27th • 8pm Thursday, September 28th • 8PM Friday, September 29th • 8PM Saturday, September 30th • 2PM Saturday, September 30th• 8PM Sunday, October 1st • 2PM Wednesday, October 4th • 8pm Thursday, October 5th • 8PM Friday, October 6th • 8PM Saturday, October 7th • 2PM Saturday, October 7th • 8PM TICKETS: Early Tickets: $25 General Admission: $39.00 http://nativeblood.bpt.me millercoffmanproductions.com |
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