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Unfinished Women Cry In No Man's Land While A Bird Dies In A Gilded Cage

Mar 5 - 14, 2015 Duke Energy Theater

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    $28. Pay-What-You-Can Night is Wed, Mar 04.
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Overview

by: Aishah Rahman
directed by: April C. Turner
 

UNFINISHED WOMEN is an underground classic in the repertoire of black theatre and was first produced by The New York Shakespeare Festival in 1977.  Set in 1948, at Hide-A-Wee Home for Unwed Mothers (the unfinished women) in juxtaposition to Pasha's boudoir, where Charlie Parker (the `Bird'), the brilliant black saxophonist of years past, spent his last days.

The play focuses on that moment when the girls must decide whether to keep their babies or to give them up for adoption. It reaches beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teen-age mothers. Despite their fantasies of rescue by `caring' young fathers, they must decide alone. Meanwhile, Bird slowly dies in the plush boudoir of his longtime mistress, trapped in a narcotic fog and the lost dreams of his exploited talent. Charlie Chan, that stereotype of Oriental inscrutability, presides over all, a comment on the power of images in our society.

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