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Theater in Old Louisville
Trane:
Beyond the Blues
March
6th through March 10th, 2002
 The
University of Louisville Theatre Arts Dept.'s African-American Theatre
Program will present Trane: Beyond the Blues by Christine Rusch.
Directed by Nefertiti Burton, Trane promises a jazzy evening that
explores the life of saxophonist John Coltrane who is often called,
"the High Priest of the Avant Garde jazz movement." Journey with
young John from his youth in North Carolina to the height of his musical
career as he struggles to find his artistic voice and to conquer the evils
that threaten to overcome him. This African American Theatre Program
production is a rare treat for the jazz aficionado but should prove equally
entertaining for anyone who has been touched by the music of the American
jazz greats like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, or Coltrane, who writer
Bill Cole describes as "one of the most innovative and experimental
forces in African American music." Parker and other jazz contemporaries
such as Miles Davis, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, Rashied Ali, and Yusef
Lateef are included among the numerous characters, who will be portrayed by
a cast of eleven, with some actors taking as many as ten roles during the
evening.
John
Chenault, who is designing the music for the production, is a freelance
writer, poet, playwright, and composer. He has written two volumes of
poetry, Blue Blackness (1969), and The Invisible Man Returns
(1992) and his reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in national and
international journals. Chenault has performed as a percussionist with the Black
Arts Ensemble, and two groups he founded: Sunship, and Zamani
Band. His playwrighting credits include: Blood Ritual, Warren
is Back in the World, Stolen Moments, The X-periment, and Young
Men Grow Older, a television drama that received the National Conference
of Christian and Jews Brotherhood Award. For the last decade, Chenault has
worked with composer Frank Proto to create new works for orchestras, chamber
ensembles and jazz bands. The composing duo has received commissions from
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Composers
Forum, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic
Orchestra, and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Chenault is currently a graduate student at the University of Louisville.
Trane:
Beyond the Blues will
be performed Wednesday through Sunday, March 6th through March 10th in the
Thrust Theatre on the corner of Floyd and Warnock Streets. Performances are
at 8:00 p.m. nightly, with a Sunday matinee at 3:00. Tickets are $10 for the
general public, $9 for faculty, staff, or seniors, and $7 for students. Call
the Box office at 852-6814 for reservations or group ticket prices.
For
more information, or a copy of the press photo, contact Rinda Frye,
publicity director, at (502) 852-7682 or rlfrye01@athena.louisville.edu
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