MAN MADE, A New Play by Dhari Noel
July 9,2022 @ 7:00pm
July 10, 2022 @ 3:00PM
wild project Artists in Residence: Dhari Noel & Cherry Picking
Man Made, a new play by Dhari Noel and directed by Clare Mottola, is about New York, Power, Race, Gender, Ancestors and Descendants—in a word, Us.
It tells the story of Seneca Village, a small but mighty African American community thriving on the outskirts of a polluted, overpopulated metropolis: New York City. When the City’s elite residents call for the destruction of Seneca to make room for a landmark “Central Park,” a natural haven at the centre of an urban sprawl, the people of Seneca find themselves fighting for their homes, their lives, and their legacies.
Man Made is an interpretation of Seneca’s vibrancy and resistance as it confronted its own destruction in the name of urban renewal. Having written this play while his students led a takeover of their school to demand wholistic institutional change for Racial Equity, and as his home, the Harlem community, continues to fight the ongoing erasure ensured by gentrification, Noel is certain that Seneca Village and its legacy haunt us. Seneca screams, it laughs, it cries, it dances. It shouts, “us, us, us.”
Directed by Clare Mottola
Stage Directions- Keren Abreu
WOMAN – Hannah Henderson
Him Is – David Glover
Oprah/1827 Toni Lachelle Pollitt
Mighty – Dhari Noel
WOMAN! – Martha Epstein
Olmsted – Zach Libresco
Power – Will Conard
Success – Ameerah Briggs
Successor – Babe Howard
Lighting Design by Kia Rogers
Dramaturg Scott Harris
Join us for a weekend full of community and coalition building, celebration and conversation.
- wild project is a proud partner of IndieSpace. We donate $0.05 from every ticket to support historically excluded Indie Theater artists in New York.
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