Pecong (play)

Pecong
Written by	steve carter
Date premiered	January 9, 1990
Place premiered	Victory Gardens Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Original language	English
Subject	Retelling of the Medea (play)
Genre	Drama
Setting	c.1890s; Fictional Caribbean island.

Pecong is a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.

Original production

Directed by Dennis Zacek
Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
Set designer: James Dardenne
Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
Lighting designer: Robert Shook
Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
Choreographer: TC Carson
Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein

Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center^[1]

Cast

Pat Bowie - Granny Root
Celeste Williams - Mediyah
Gary Yates - Cedric
Catherine Slade - Persis
Wandachristine - Faustina
Ernest Perry, Jr. - Creon Pandit
Diane White - Sweet Bella
Daniel Oreskes - Jason Allcock

Feleccia C. Boyd
Shanesia L. Davis
Lydia R. Gartin
Shawn Goodwin
Thomas W. Greene V
Alison Halstead
Dexter L. Warr
Christopher Williams

– Oppidans

Awards and nominations

1990 Jeff Award, Best New Work
1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)^[2]

Publication

Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

External links

New York Times review of 1992 production

References

↑ Carter, Steve (1993). Pecong (First ed.). New York: Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-88145-107-X.
↑ "Lit Lounge". San Francisco, California: Hotel Metropolis. Retrieved 2009-12-05.

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