ON HER SHOULDERS Presents:
Spunk
by: Zora Neale Hurston
In association with
The School of Drama at the New School
Dramaturg: Sarah “Espii” Proctor
Director: Aneesha Kudtarkar
Assistant Director: Kristin Heckler
With:
Beethoven Oden
Mia Antoinette Crowe
William Sinclair Moore
Althea Alexis
William Smith
The remarkable thing about SPUNK is that it is a love story sprinkled with aspects of southern, African-American culture. There is talk about churning and hoodoo, new beginnings and the church, the nonchalant attitudes of whites towards African Americans when there is “order”, blues music and the rich use of dialect by all of the characters. There is no idealistic picture of life in SPUNK nor any lamentation on any existing conditions. Everything exists as it is.