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The Second CenturyNew Brooklyn Theatre completes its season of the past, present, and future of plays by African-American women with The Second Century, a monthly reading series of new plays by emerging and mid-career playwrights. Each writer has a bold vision and unique voice, and her play will serve as an agent of civic dialogue in the Brooklyn community. In 2015, the company produced Angelina Weld Grimké's 1916 play Rachel, the first play ever staged by an African-American woman, and the NYC premiere of Lynn Nottage's Las Meninas. With The Second Century, New Brooklyn Theatre celebrates both Rachel's centennial and new work by five women playwrights to watch for the future. There's a generation of rising black women playwrights out there. We want to help develop their plays.
The Second Century is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. |
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Sleep Over StoriesWe launched our series The Second Century with Wi-Moto Nyoka's Sleep Over Stories, a set of short plays which explore second-class citizenship set in alternate realities involving werewolves, aliens, ghosts, and zombies.
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Man in LoveIn a grey metropolis during the Great Depression, a group of people from all over the city somehow manage to find love and a good time. But when a string of dead bodies are discovered in the Black neighborhood, fear causes many to search for protection even from those who could potentially be most dangerous.
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The SubjectIn The Subject, an upstart documentarian builds his success on the death of one of his subjects and faces the consequences
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