LUKUMI
The Orisha Trilogy Part 3
2017 WORLD PREMIERE'S CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
d’bi.young anitafrika - Playwright & Co-Composer
Eugene Williams - Director & Dramaturge
Waleed Abdulhamid - Musical Director & Co-Composer
L’Antoinette Stines - Choreographer & Dramaturge
Rachel Forbes - Set & Costume Designer
Michelle Ramsay - Lighting Designer
Kathleen Jones - Stage Manager
Samson Brown - Production Manager
Suba Sankaran - Music Notator
Lucius Dechausay - Filmmaker
Melissa Joakim - Projection Consultant
Christopher Mott - Fight Choreographer
Matt Armour - Tarragon Theatre Technician
Danilo McCallum - Poster Designer
Brett Haynes - Artistic Producer
CAST - Aisha Bentham, Savannah Clarke, Daniel Ellis, Sedina Fiati, Uche Ama, Najla Nubyanluv, Sashoya Shoya Oya, Julene Robinson and d’bi.young anitafrika
Dub Orchestra - Waleed Abdulhamid, Kanna Ody Anigbogu, Amara Kante, Patrick O’Reilly
LUKUMI A DUB OPERA
Lukumi: A Dub Opera formerly entitled Bleeders, is an Afrofuturist Dub Opera set in post-apocalypse Turtle Island in 2167, 150 years after WWIII and 100 years after the Period of Explosions (PoE). The PoE saw the widespread meltdown of nuclear power plants – due to global environmental degradation – making the surface of the earth virtually uninhabitable. A group of freedom fighters called the Ohosi Mino live underground in intricate cave systems where they are viciously hunted by The One World Army. Having access to ancient knowledges, the Ahosi Mino must send a Lukumi on a vision quest, descending through nine layers of earth, to find humanity's redemption or to die trying.