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Mecca is Burning

Opening Date: Aug 10, 2023

Closing Date: Aug 20, 2023

Running Time: 02:15

Mecca is Burning
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Playing @

Harlem School of the Arts

645 St. Nicholas Ave New York, NY 10030

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Four Black families who inhabit a brownstone in Harlem variously face up to a crisis that could be imagined from the Trump-drugged, factional politics we are living with today. It mixes live music, dance, civil rights era poetry and contemporary prose, taking inspiration from Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enufMecca is Burning aims to illuminate the fragile perspective of contemporary African Americans: a population battered by gentrification, the retraction of equality and human rights, cultural suppression and the actual possibility of civil war with far-right extremists.

Presented by the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC), in conjunction with their residency at Penn Live Arts, the play was collaboratively written by Cris Eli Blak, Lisa McCree, Levy Lee Simon and Mona R. Washington under the leadership of Karen Brown, Artistic Director and Executive Producer of NEC, who directs the piece. Over the past year, each of the four playwrights penned a different story about a family living in a Harlem building, each story being independent of the others until a catastrophic event connects them all.
Show Notes

Show Notes: 1 intermission

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COVID-19 Safety Information

Masks are optional but encouraged.

Performance Schedule:

THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY @ 2 PM & 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM

Director

Karen Brown

Written by

Cris Eli Blak, Lisa McCree, Levy Lee Simon & Mona R. Washington

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Full-price tickets

$40.14

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Parking

Parking: Limited street parking is available. There is a commercial parking garage on St. Nicholas Avenue south of 145th Street.

Directions Bus

The M3 bus runs south on Fifth Ave and north on Madison Ave; stopping at 141st St. or take the M11 bus to 141st St. Walk east for two blocks to St. Nicholas Ave and turn left.

Directions Subway

A, B, C, or D train to the 145th St and St. Nicholas Ave station. Exit on the west side and walk south on St. Nicholas Ave toward 141st Street.

HSA is located just north of the St. James Presbyterian Church.

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By Subway:

A, B, C, or D train to the 145th St and St. Nicholas Ave station. Exit on the west side and walk south on St. Nicholas Ave toward 141st Street.

HSA is located just north of the St. James Presbyterian Church.

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By Bus:

The M3 bus runs south on Fifth Ave and north on Madison Ave; stopping at 141st St. or take the M11 bus to 141st St. Walk east for two blocks to St. Nicholas Ave and turn left.