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CHEZIA B THOMPSON
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Concubines, The
Synopsis:
Based on traditional Yoruba religious figures and the phenomenon of Haley's Comet in 1910, this is a story about the appearance of three orishas during the Mardi Gras festival in New Or-leans and their relationship with the entity of Time
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1st Produced:
Mallincrodt Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, Mo 1973
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Genre:
Ritual/Drama
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Male: -  Female: -  Other: 7 BM, 11 BF, extras
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Death Walk
Synopsis:
Based on Haitian legends of two women who were carried off by "loas" (Haitian voodoo cult deities) to the "land beneath the water" and how each was transformed by the experience
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- 1974
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Once Upon a Time in a Garden
Synopsis:
Delineates the inva-sion of Africa by Europeans; also proposes a theory about Earth's invasion by hostile intergalactic forces
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the Learning Center, St. Louis, Mo.; Graham Chapel, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo 1972
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