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UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre Presents The Colored Museum
February 22-25 & February 28-March 2 @ 8 pm
February 26 @ 2 pm
Black Box Theater, Robinson Hall
UNC Charlotte
The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will present George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum February 22 – March 2. Audaciously funny and relentlessly thought-provoking, The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all backgrounds since it premiered in 1986. Performed as eleven individual scenes or “exhibits,” the play’s stinging wit confronts stereotypes old and new. Frank Rich of The New York Times declared, “Mr. Wolfe is the kind of satirist who takes no prisoners. The shackles of the past have been defied by Mr. Wolfe’s fearless humor, and it’s a liberating revolt.”
Wolfe’s biting comedy carries the audience through 200 years of African-American culture, examining with irreverence what it has meant to be Black in America. Presenting a collection of well-worn stereotypes, the vaudevillian “exhibits” in The Colored Museum include “Cookin’ with Aunt Ethel,” “The Gospel According to Miss Roj,” and “The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play.”
The student production is directed by James Vesce, Chair of the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre. Performances will take place in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall on the university campus.
On Friday, February 24, the Department of Theatre will host a symposium, “Laughing at Our Contradictions: George Wolfe’s The Colored Museum and Post-Modern Black Culture,” from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre in Robinson Hall. In addition to Vesce, the panel will include Dr. Malin Pereira, chair of the UNC Charlotte Department of English; Dr. Mark Staton, a professor at Johnson C. Smith University and a playwright; and historian Dr. Rob Smith, a former member of the Africana Studies Department at UNC Charlotte and currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Tickets for the play are $14, $9 for seniors and UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, and $6 for all students. Tickets are available by calling the Robinson Hall Box Office at 704-687-1849 and online at www.performances.uncc.edu.
About the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre
Offering a BA in Theatre and a BA in Theatre Education, the Department of Theatre strives to inspire students to expand their vision of the world and themselves through the study and practice of the craft of theatre, preparing them for leadership as practitioners, educators, and artists. Students learn to participate in current critical discourse while engaging with the theory, history, and material conditions of performance, and broaden their personal horizons as they encounter a range of ideas and issues – political, social, and aesthetic – through the unique art form that is theatre. The program thus creates a rigorous intellectual environment firmly rooted in the theatrical art form.
About the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture
Established in 2008, the College of Arts + Architecture represents 1200 students and nearly 100 full-time faculty members in five creative disciplines: art and art history, architecture, dance, music, and theatre. Dedicated to interdisciplinary conversation, collaboration, and innovation, the College of Arts + Architecture demonstrates UNC Charlotte’s commitment to arts and culture on campus and in the broader community. The College presents exhibitions, lectures, and nearly 100 performances each year. For more information, visit www.coaa.uncc.edu.
