Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage
By Aishah Rahman
Directed by Gilbert McCauley
March 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 p.m.
March 8 & 15 at 2 p.m.
March 11 at 10 a.m.
The Curtain Theater
$5 students, seniors, Card to Culture, $17 general admission
Unfinished Women, Aishah Rahman’s theatrical jazz tour-de-force, portrays a group of teenage mothers trying to decide whether to put their babies up for adoption, while in a room nearby, doomed genius saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker slowly dies in a drugged and dream-filled haze. Rahman weaves spoken word and jazz music together in an intimate, emotional work described as an "underground classic".