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The Department of Communication Studies Performance Studies Area HopKins Black Box 2009-2010 Season Cutting Across the Map Conceived and performed by Ariel Gratch directed by Lisa Flanagan 7:30 PM Wednesday 9/23 through Saturday 9/26 An interactive, multi-media storytelling event that invites the audience to assist (or not) in creating the performance, with variations based on how the performer feels, audience responses, current events, and social and physical constraints. Nonfiction Zombie Directed by Tracy Stephenson Shaffer 7:30 PM Wednesday 10/14 through Saturday 10/17 2:30 PM Sunday 10/18 You can run, but you can't hide!  The zombie invasion is now!  Join us in the HopKins Black Box as we unearth the phenomenon of the living dead and ask why they have risen in popularity in the new millennium. Voodoo Queen Adapted and directed by Brandon Nicholas 7:30 PM Wednesday 11/18 through Saturday 11/21 2:30 PM Sunday 11/22 This performance examines the life of the mysterious Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and the impact she continues to leave on the city she called home. We regret the performance of FLIGHT has been cancelled, but we hope to see you at our next event. Fall Showcase 7:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday, 12/1 & 12/2 The HopKins Black Box proudly showcases a variety of short performances and videos developed in courses by our creative students. Spring 2010 Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales Written and performed by guest artist E. Patrick Johnson 7:30 PM Saturday 1/23 This one-man show is based on the oral histories of black gay men between the ages of 19 and 93 who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South.  Topics include coming of age, religion, sex, transgenderism, and coming out. Black Body Business Conceived and directed by Jade Huell 7:30 PM Wednesday 2/3 through Saturday 2/6 2:30 PM Sunday 2/7 The USA has been in the business of black bodies for centuries, but there are just some things that are the business of black bodies.  Black Body Business highlights the problems and possibilities, contradictions and creativity, inherent in any examination nof the phenomenon called blackness. Spreadsheets/Leftovers Conceived and performed by Derek Mudd/by Brianne Waychoff 7:30 PM Wednesday 3/10 through Saturday 3/13 2:30 PM Sunday 3/14 Two solo performances layered onto one space: in Spreadsheets, meet CopyBoy, a wannabe parapsychologist who conducts bizarre experiments and records his data in mysteriously cryptic spreadsheets that take on a life of their own.  In Leftovers, gleaning serves as both subject and metaphor as it explores leftover fragments; potatoes in a field, a painting, a family memento, a body rememering. The Double Life of Dr. Dapertutto Adapted and directed by Ruth Laurion Bowman 7:30 PM Wednesday 4/21 through Saturday 4/24 2:30 PM Sunday 4/25 Drawn from an E. T. A. Hoffman story, dr. Dapertutto symbolizes the pleasure and danger of leading a double life.  In this piece, the double life is revealed and concealed through the body surface--its extraordinary costumes, masks, and movements--as an inevitable site of bittersweet memory, humor, and haunting beauty. Spring Showcase 7:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday, 5/4 & 5/5 The season concludes with a celebration of the imaginative performances and videos made by students in our courses. Admission to events in the HopKins Black Box is by a suggested donation at the door.