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"I Ain't Yo' Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Event Details

Time: June 12, 2009 at 7:30pm to June 28, 2009 at 5pm
Location: Amun Ra Theatre Playhouse
Street: 2508 Clifton Avenue
City/Town: Nashville
Website or Map: http://www.theamunratheatre.o…
Phone: 615-329-4228
Event Type: theatre, production
Organized By: jeff obafemi carr
Latest Activity: Jun 24, 2009

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Event Description

This Nashville Premiere production takes Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and spins it on its ear. Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and Eliza put Harriet Beecher Stowe on trial for not only perpetuating negative stereotypes but also for failing to "get their story right." In this play these same stereotypes reinvent themselves, while the story gets updated from their own Afrocentric perspective in such a way that it not only retains the story's original power, but also draws sharp parallels on matters of race between yesterday and today.