Hip Hop Theater

Hip Hop Theater

Kristina Wong's Free?

Thursday May 18, 2006

$10gen. ($8 seniors & students W/ID) - 8pm


La Peña & Hip Hop Theater Festival presents Kristina Wong's Free? With more street cred than you can shake a pair of Hammer pants at, Kristina Wong riffs on notions of freedom in times that would make Joe McCarthy gasp. Show highlights include satirical homage to save the world in five minutes, homeland suckurity, and that new disease from Asia -- what was it this time? Also

HHTF Shorts by Suicide Kings & Ise Lyfe.

"Who's Crazy"
written and performed by Ise Lyfe

This piece is a poetic collage taking place in the basement bedroom of Milton Victor. Diagnosed as phsycotic and bipolar, everyone from a white supremist to a Baptist preacher channels themselves through Milton, using his body as a vessel to give America a piece of their mind.

 

In Spite Of Everything
Written and Performed by The Suicide Kings
Jamie Kennedy, Geoff Trenchard & Rupert Estanislao
Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

As school administrators ask themselves the perennial question, “What went
wrong?” they discover a note implying that three poetry teachers might have the answer.