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BY EISA DAVIS DIRECTED BY NICOLE A. WATSON A CO-PRODUCTION WITH MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER PEET’S THEATRE. OCT 27–DEC 3, 2023 Glitters like Boonville’s Navarro River….The script devises an idiom so resplendent, so discerning, that it induces chills and shudders…. [The] cast members buff the text to a high gleam. An all-around beautiful play!
Mar 22, 2024 · March 22, 2024. You’ve seen Eisa Davis on TV, heard of her play Bulrusher, caught her singing here at Joe’s Pub or maybe in Passing Strange. She has forged a multifaceted artistry on her own terms, but she’s never had a book of her own published. And now it’s here, ANGELA’S MIXTAPE + THE HISTORY OF LIGHT, a volume of two of her plays ...
Oct 20, 2023 · The first thing the audience hears at the beginning of Eisa Davis' play “Bulrusher” is the title character, a mixed-race teenage girl in Northern California in 1955, declaiming a poem about her own beginnings. “I float in a basket toward the Pacific, hands blue as huckleberries,” she intones. A few lines later, she explains.
Biography. Eisa Davis wrote and starred in the acclaimed stage memoir Angela's Mixtape. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama with her play Bulrusher. Other plays include The History of Light (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Warriors Don't Cry (Cornerstone Theater Company, Tennessee Women's Theater Project), Hip Hop Anansi (Imagination Stage), Paper Armor, Umkovu ...
Apr 9, 2009 · Eisa Davis’s play is a rhythmic collage of scenes, songs and reminiscences about the life of Angela Davis, the scholar and activist.
Eisa Davis. Actress: Mare of Easttown. Eisa Davis is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer-songwriter working on stage and screen. She is known for her roles as Cynthia Driscoll on House of Cards (2015-16), and as Rae, Bubbles' sister on The Wire (2003, 2008). She also played Irma in the acclaimed rock musical Passing Strange (2009), captured on film by Spike Lee. For her extensive work ...
Mar 27, 2009 · Compassion is a good word to describe Eisa’s new play THE HISTORY OF LIGHT. It is a compassionate love story and a compassionate story about an estranged father and daughter. She describes her play as a passionate fugue between fathers, daughters, lovers, and friends. Eisa begins the play with a song that she wrote for her main character Soph:
