Number 1 in the EX-MEN: DRAGSICAL™ COLLECTOR'S CARD Series. Trixxie Carr as Rouge. Illustration by Diego Gomez.
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ROTIMI AGBABIAKA’S - MANIFESTO! - GREAT SuCcess! - Drama bin Laden does audio. /
STREAMING ON DEMAND APRIL 22 - 25 & APRIL 29 - May 3, 2021
Written and performed by Rotimi Agbabiaka
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
Original Sound Design by Jason Hannan/aka Drama bin Laden
It’s a new day in America! There’s a vaccine for the virus, democracy has been saved, and now, more than ever, Black Lives Matter. After a year under lockdown, a queer, black actor decides to create a manifesto for theatre in our brave new world. But just when a revolutionary artist thinks they know all the answers, that’s when they need to start asking some new questions.
Using drag, dance, music, and “an endless parade of captivating characters and scenes” (KQED), Rotimi Agbabiaka takes on the entertainment industry and a young actor’s quest for revolutionary art in a time when diversity is on trend. Hailed as a “lightening bolt of insight and delightful bitterness” (Mission Local), Manifesto shines a comedic light on the triumphs, failings, and absurdities of our current moment.
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Number 2 in the EX-MEN: DRAGSICAL™ COLLECTOR'S CARD Series. Suppositori Spelling as Gene Gray. Illustration by Diego Gomez.
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FEATURED: ROTIMI AGBABIAKA'S TYPE/CASTE /
Player emeritus, Rotimi Ababiaka, enlists Tranimation Studios' sound designer, Jason Hannan to create a soundscape for his latest solo show, Type/Caste. Running June, 10-11 at he African American Center for Arts and Culture as part of The 19th Annual Queer Arts Festival.
Based on Rotimi’s real life experience as a professional actor, Type/Caste is a fast paced and humorous journey into the peaks, pitfalls and hallucinations of a young artist's quest for success in a gentrified and commercialized industry as he attempts to create outsider art in a profession that favors insiders and in spite of the soul suck of capitalism. In this moment of #OscarsSoWhite, Type/Caste is a personal look at the politics of (mis-) representation on the American stage.
