KILL MOVE PARADISE - Production Trailer (Dobama Theatre)

KILL MOVE PARADISE
by James Ijames
directed by Nathan Henry

Winner - 2017 Whiting AwardWinner - 2019 Kesselring PrizeREGIONAL PREMIERE

WITH: Mell-Vonti Bowens, Jr. (ISA), Darius Stubbs (GRIF), Ananias J. Dixon* (DAZ), Aamar-Malik Culbreth, Avery Pope (Swing)

Scenic: Laura Carlson Tarantowski
Lighting: Marcus Dana
Costume: Mia Jones
Sound: Derek Graham
Projections: T Paul Lowry
Props: Andy Zicari
Choreography: Jailyn Harris
Technical Director: Jeremy Paul
Stage Manager: Joel Rathbone*
Asst. Stage Manager: Kitty Wen

* denotes member Actors' Equity Association

SYNOPSIS:A moving, funny, hopeful requiem for Black lives. James Ijames’ award-winning play Kill Move Paradise tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny, four black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic purgatory in the afterlife. While balancing the reality of their past and the uncertainty of their future, their souls try to find peace from senseless action and hope in the life they left behind. Gone but never forgotten, Kill Move Paradise illustrates the possibilities of collective transformation and radical acts of joy.

“Mr. Ijames, who has said his play is inspired by the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a Cleveland police officer… shows his characters trying to find the logic in the senselessness. It is a torturous and fruitless process. But as rendered in this production, it radiates an urgent and hypnotic theatrical energy.” — The New York Times

Content Advisory: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence, Lighting Effects, and Gun shots.

Running Time: 85 minutes
*no intermission

Performances: Thursdays-Sundays.Tickets: $32-38

Pay-What-You-Can tickets available one hour to every performance at the Box Office.

Special Pay-What-You-Can performance Sunday, March 6 @ 7:30pm.

**Proof of Vaccination and masking required for all audience members.

For tickets: 216.932.3396 dobama.org