Coming Soon: Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen

Coming Soon: Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen

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Non-Sequitur
by Khadijah Queen

2014-15 Winner of the
LESLIE SCALAPINO AWARD
FOR INNOVATIVE WOMEN PERFORMANCE WRITERS

“smart, jagged, and irrepressible … an incandescent and welcome act of sabotage.”
(Joyelle McSweeney, 2013 winner)

Book Launch and Opening December 10 – 8PM
Performances December 10th-20th 2015
Thursday thru Sunday
8pm Thu-Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun
1 hour approx with no interval – $15

At Theaterlab
357 West 36th Street, 3rd fl, New York NY 10018
(elevator)
A, C, E, 1, 2, 3 to Penn Station
B, D, F, M, N, Q, R to Herald Square

Directed by
FIONA TEMPLETON

With:
LENORA CHAMPAGNE
HELGA DAVIS
STACEY KAREN ROBINSON*
DAWN AKEMI SAITO*
YON TANDE
ZSELYKE TARNAI
DAVID THOMSON

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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Khadijah’s play Non-Sequitur is a high theatrical challenge – its dozens of characters have voices on multiple registers: the voices in our heads, under our breaths, on our voicemail, hard to have to listen to, hilarious voices, blurted voices, bodily voices, but compact, searing, terse, not clamorous. They form an absurdity only too recognizable. This is our own experience and others’ in bed together, our conscious and unconscious lives. Prejudice and pain, slapstick and delicacy. Her deftness of touch is masterful. In each line the actor must live a life.

We are also very excited that Litmus Press will be publishing Non-Sequitur, with a book launch to coincide with our opening night at Theaterlab, December 10th at 8PM. For more details, and to read an excerpt, visit their website here

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KHADIJAH QUEEN is the author of Conduit (Akashic Books 2008), Black Peculiar (Noemi Press 2011), and Fearful Beloved, forthcoming from Argos Books in fall 2015. Her chapbooks are No Isla Encanta (2007) and bloodroot (2015), both from dancing girl press; the digital chapbook I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (Sibling Rivalry 2013); and Exercises in Painting, due out from Bloof Books in 2016. Reviews of her work can be found in Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Review, Open Letters Monthly, Mosaic, The Volta and other publications. Individual poems and prose appear or are forthcoming in Fence, Tin House,RHINO, jubilat, Tupelo Quarterly, Memoir, CURA, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Rattle, Aufgabe, The Volta Book of Poets, The Force of What’s Possible and widely elsewhere. She has performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Book Arts (NYC) and other venues nationally. Since 2008, she has curated the annual multi-genre, multicultural, women/LGBTQIA-focused reading series Courting Risk, and currently serves as board chair for the feminist publisher Kore Press. In 2016, she will join the new Mile-High MFA in creative writing at Regis University as core faculty.

FIONA TEMPLETON is a poet, director and Artistic Director of The Relationship. Her 6- part epic The Medead appeared this year from Roof Books.  For more on The Relationship see www.therelationship.org

The Leslie Scalapino Award
In memory of Leslie Scalapino, her extraordinary body of work, and her commitment to the community of experimental writing and performance. The Leslie Scalapino Award recognizes the importance of innovation in writing for performance, and wishes to encourage women writers in this field by offering opportunities to reach a wider audience, and to gain recognition, through realized readings and productions.