Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (2015)
Written by Nathan Alan Davis
Directed by Gregory Wallace
Told with humor and wordplay, ritual, drums and dance -
DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA is a present-day hero’s quest exploring the lengths and depths we must go to redeem history’s wrongs.
Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Dontrell Jones III, decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage. But his family is not at all ready to abandon its prized son to the waters of a mysterious and haunting past.
Opening Night: February 20, 2015
CAST:
Omete Anassi
Haley McHugh
Benai Boyd
Charles McCoy
Yvonne Huff
Jasmine St. Clair
REVIEWS
CRITIC'S CHOICE!
MESMERIZING blend of MAGICAL realism and poetic social comment. BRILLIANTLY DIRECTED. Hauntingly beautiful final passage
- Los Angeles Times
WOW!
EXQUISITELY staged and performed.
A play YOU'LL BE TALKING ABOUT on the drive home.
- StageSceneLA
FIRST-CLASS. Impeccably staged. Lyrical and STUNNING.
- BroadwayWorld
IF YOU GO TO NO OTHER SHOW THIS YEAR, get yourself to Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea: it’s productions such as this that make live theatre as an art form to celebrate!
- The Los Angeles Post
MASTERFUL story presented in a style which embraces all cultures.
A WORK OF ART.
DON'T MISS THIS ONE
- Discover Hollywood
