This play is an Afro-Surrealistic show, with a fiction based speculative story based in mycelium knowledge. Mushrooms are our consultants, but we are the storytellers.
The Mushroom Kingdom of Ezili is a three-act play with music that immerses us in a magical land of sentient mushrooms, ruled by pleasure-activist Queen Milfie. The story follows Queen Milfie’s efforts to fight against the exploitation of herbal medicine by human overconsumption amid climate disaster.
The plot thickens when a local artist named George seeks hallucinogenic mushrooms to cope with their failing art career and attacks Queen Milfie's Mushroom Kingdom.
After a solar eclipse, the three communities are intrinsically tied, where all the stories and imaginations that George's share, impact a real Mud Person from the Mushroom Kingdom.
We follow Mud People who are essentially kidnapped from the Black feminist utopia of Ezili and placed into the world of Plot, George's imagination. The issue we find is that George suffers from internalized anti-Blackness, and the world of Plot - a microcosm for the anti-black commercial theatrical world - is not the same reality they were used to in the land of The Mushroom Kingdom of Ezili.
The Mud People resist the stories they are subjected to, and we follow the lovers' voyage back to their mushroom mainland. Once the Mud People return to the Kingdom, reporting their experiences to the Queen, we follow Queen Milfie’s response from mystic magic to righteous anger.
Thus, Queen Milfie leads the Mushroom Kingdom down an Era of Poison as a defensive and offensive posture against George. Queen Milfie summons George and offers magic to him to learn his lesson about self-love and eco-womanism.
Created and Directed by Charlene Jean
Devised with Chesray Dolpha, Thalia Sablon, Star Mitchell, Gabriel White
Cast: Maya Finoh, Raven Jeanette, Gabriel White, Michael Rashawn, Star Mitchell, Colin Pieters, Oskar Gantauh
Would love comments, feedback, and future development partnerships. Thanks for watching.
23 авг 2024
