BLEEDING THROUGH

“…it’s fun just to let the story and characters wash over you – you feel like you’re back in the LA of the 1920s to 1940s.” – John Rabe, KPCC’s Off Ramp

OCHRE & ONYX: The Langston Hughes Project

Watts Village Theater Company presents
OCHRE & ONYX: The Langston Hughes Project
Written by Lynn Manning
Directed by Nataki Garrett

May 1 through May 31, 2009

OCHRE & ONYX follows the present day story of an African-American slam poet and an Afro Latina painter who find themselves in the middle of a struggle for the true soul of the beloved poet, and father of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes. Meanwhile, in 1920’s Mexico, the young Langston fights to convince his father James, to finance his study of poetry at Columbia University. As father and son struggle in the past, poet and painter struggle in the present, in two strikingly similar worlds.