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Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Nina. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile his past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all – fatherhood.
12 Νοε 2013 · “Sunset Baby” begins quietly. Baldheaded and creamy voiced, Kenyatta (Tony Award-nominee John Earl Jelks), a former political prisoner and member of the Black Liberation Movement, stares into a camera and tells us about fatherhood.
30 Ιαν 2024 · Consider joining our Patron Program (linked below) for VIP benefits including access to house seats to sold out shows. East New York, Brooklyn. Nina’s estranged father Kenyatta, a former Black revolutionary and political prisoner, reappears to obtain a coveted piece of her late Mother’s legacy.
22 Φεβ 2024 · Helen Shaw reviews a revival of Dominique Morisseau’s 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
20 Φεβ 2024 · The first meeting between Kenyatta and Nina is tense, as it surely would be for any father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years. But their encounter in this revival of Dominique Morisseau’s decade-old play could not be more fraught.
3 Οκτ 2012 · A clash between the personal and political in the New York ghetto. Midway through Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby, New York hustler Damon nods to the academic Stephen Spitzer’s theory of social junk versus social dynamite. Social junk, he explains, are those who have fallen through society’s cracks. They are often helpless, dependent on ...
28 Σεπ 2022 · How do they grapple when the world they wanted never comes to fruition? Who bears the weight of passing the baton to the next generation? Playwright Dominique Morisseau asks these pressing questions about the cost of activism and resulting trauma in her play, Sunset Baby, onstage at Actor’s Express through October 16.
