NewsPHOTO CALL: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick at Playwrights HorizonsThe world premiere of Kia Corthron's A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, the tale of an African preacher-to-be visiting rural America, plays Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.
By
Krissie Fullerton
March 17, 2010
Chay Yew directs a company that includes Keith Eric Chappelle (Cyrano de Bergerac), William Jackson Harper (Ruined), Joshua King, Kianné Muschett and Myra Lucretia Taylor (Nine).
According to Playwrights Horizons, "In A Cool Dip, an African preacher-in-training (Harper) comes to a drought-stricken rural American community to further his studies in religion and water conservation. He stays with a mother (Taylor) and daughter (Muschett) haunted by personal tragedy and takes a special interest in a young orphan (King) starved for guidance. In the face of all obstacles he maintains an infectious, unstinting optimism determined to battle — by any means necessary — the personal and political forces that threaten the ecology of his new home."
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick at Playwrights Horizons
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick at Playwrights Horizons
The world premiere of Kia Corthron's A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, the tale of an African preacher-to-be visiting rural America, plays Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Joshua King, William Jackson Harper and Kianné Muschette
Joan Marcus
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Kianné Muschette and William Jackson Harper
Joan Marcus
Myra Lucretia Taylor, William Jackson Harper and Kianné Muschette
Joan Marcus
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Eric Chappelle, William Jackson Harper and Kianné Muschette
Joan Marcus
Joshua King, William Jackson Harper and Myra Lucretia Taylor
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
