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A LITTLE BIT OF PARADISE
A PLAY ABOUT 1924 ON BUFFALO’S EAST SIDE
The
Curtain Up selection for Road Less Traveled Theatre this
season is the World Premiere of Annette Daniels
Taylor’s, play A Little Bit of Paradise, which is
directed by Tim White, opens on Friday September 12
until Sunday October 5.
The
play, A Little Bit of Paradise, is about a
woman’s right to choose in 1924 and the consequences
that occur after she’s made those decisions. The story
brings us into the home of Jacob, (Dee Lamonte
Perry), and Louisa Bridges, (Sarielys Matos),
Black Buffalo's premiere couple, who are friends with
Sherman Walker, Buffalo's first Black millionaire and
Reverend Nash founding pastor of the Michigan Street
Baptist Church. The Bridges live on Michigan Avenue,
where previously there had been many large beautiful
Victorian homes where middle class blacks and whites
lived.
The
character Jacob Bridges, a native of Buffalo and a first
generation free born Black is a lawyer and community
liaison for Mayor Francis Schwab during the time Mayor
Schwab shamed the Ku Klux Klan out of Buffalo where they
had a headquarters in the Calumet Building on Chippewa
Street. Louisa Bridges a New Orleans born Creole, who
was trained as a concert pianist in Paris. The play
begins when the Bridges housekeeper, Bessie Green,
(played by Joyce Carolyn Butler, alternating with
Verneice Turner), invites a homeless girl named
Queenie, (Aitena Fareed) into the kitchen.
Shortly after the girl’s departure, a police officer
Jeffers, (Don Gervasi) appears on the Bridges
doorstep.
The
play deals with how class struggles within the community
can tear us apart or bring us together and how women
band together and support each other during adverse
conditions. It’s a Buffalo story, but its fictional
using Buffalo's historical events as a backdrop for the
plot.
Annette Daniels Taylor, an actress and
playwright, is the author of Mama Songs, a hip hop love
poem, commissioned by The Arts in Education Institute of
Western New York. She is also the Regional Coordinator
for the Buffalo Mamapalooza Festivals and the former
Wardrobe Supervisor for HBO's Def Comedy Jam hosted by
Martin Lawrence.
The
Road Less Traveled Theater is at 639 Main Street
(Inside Market Arcade Film & Arts Center)
Buffalo, New York 14201 | Box Office: (716) 629-3069
or go to
www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org
or more information and to watch the trailer and listen
to a podcast with Annette speaking about the play.
Ladies Night Out
with Keith Sweat, Bell Biv Devoe and Dru Hill
  
Shea's Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Fri, Oct 10, 2008 08:00 PM
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