ViennaCarroll.com http://viennacarroll.com Singer-Actor-Playwright-Historian Sat, 04 May 2019 18:32:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 http://viennacarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-favicon-akofena-512px-32x32.png ViennaCarroll.com http://viennacarroll.com 32 32 Sat., May 3rd at 7pm, “Shallow Brown” Reading at Langston Hughes Playwrights Showcase http://viennacarroll.com/reading-of-play-shallow-brown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reading-of-play-shallow-brown http://viennacarroll.com/reading-of-play-shallow-brown/#respond Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:17:37 +0000 http://viennacarroll.com/?p=1483 Shallow Brown: Thessalonia and the Free Sailor will receive a reading at the 1st Langston Hughes Playwrights Showcase. This event will be held at the Langston Hughes House at 20 E. 127th St. (bet. 5th & Madison), Harlem, NY–the recently refurbished, actual home of Langston Hughes while he lived in Harlem! Get directions.

Shallow Brown, the Play

 

 

 

]]> http://viennacarroll.com/reading-of-play-shallow-brown/feed/ 0 Shallow Brown: A Staged Reading on October 26th in Harlem http://viennacarroll.com/shallow-brown-a-staged-reading-on-october-26th-in-harlem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shallow-brown-a-staged-reading-on-october-26th-in-harlem http://viennacarroll.com/shallow-brown-a-staged-reading-on-october-26th-in-harlem/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 01:41:58 +0000 http://viennacarroll.com/?p=1447 Shallow Brown: Thessalonia and the Free Sailor
A Staged Reading

October 26, 2018
6 – 8 pm

Langston Hughes House
20 E. 127th Street
Harlem, NY


Take 2/3 to 125th St./Malcolm X Blvd. or 4,5,6 to 125th St./Lexington

Shallow Brown, a play by Vienna Carroll

]]> http://viennacarroll.com/shallow-brown-a-staged-reading-on-october-26th-in-harlem/feed/ 0 SHALLOW BROWN: Thessalonia and the Free Sailor. New play! http://viennacarroll.com/shallow-brown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shallow-brown http://viennacarroll.com/shallow-brown/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:25:19 +0000 http://viennacarroll.com/?p=1361 Shallow Brown, a play by Vienna CarrollIn SHALLOW BROWN, Thessalonia falls hard for a free sailor, one of the many who smuggles pages of the radical Black self-defense manifesto, “David Walker’s Appeal”, from Boston up and down the eastern seaboard in 1829. She helps her serious father circulate the prohibited document. Two short years later, her suspicions about her dad are confirmed. He turns out to be a respected organizer in the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831.

HISTORY

Prior to the Civil War, when the primary channel of transport was via the water, one in five boatmen and sailors in the US were Black. Largely independent, both enslaved and free, and often with crews of their own, these Black men moved goods through Northern and Southern US ports and along international waterways.

Their skill and particular knowledge afforded them respect and stature otherwise unknown on land.  An under-appreciated axis of resistance, they brought back stories to their communities of how other colored people lived, they smuggled freedom documents and they helped runaways escape.

As was common in that era, they created sea chanteys songs to help them in their daily chores, to lighten their hearts and to document their experiences.

We’re very excited to be part of the upcoming Langston Hughes Playwright Showcase.  May 3, 2019 7pm
20 East 127th St (between 5th and Madison) Stay tuned for more details.
Shallow Brown, a play by writer Vienna CarrollPast Shows:

Friday, May 25, 2018: 9 pm
Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
Theater for the New City, NYC
155 First Avenue (bet. 9th & 10th Sts)
New York, NY 10003
http://theaterforthenewcity.net

Sat., June 9, 2018: 11 – 11:45 am
(entire day begins at 8:30 am)
Excerpt AND Research Findings
Symposium, 39th Annual Sea Music Festival
Mystic Seaport, CT
https://mysticseaport.org/event/sea-music-festival/

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More performances to come!

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