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Pecong (play)

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Written by
  
steve carter

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
9 January 1990

Date premiered
  
January 9, 1990

Genre
  
Drama

Playwright
  
Steve Carter

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Place premiered
  
Victory Gardens Theatre Chicago, Illinois

Subject
  
Retelling of the Medea (play)

Pecong is a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow Jason alcock

Contents

Original production

  • Directed by Dennis Zacek
  • Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
  • Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
  • Set designer: James Dardenne
  • Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
  • Lighting designer: Robert Shook
  • Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
  • Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
  • Choreographer: TC Carson
  • Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein

    • Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center

    Awards and nominations

  • 1990 Jeff Award, Best New Work
  • 1990 (Jeff Award), Willy Steele-Original Score
  • 1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)

    • Publication

    Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

    References

    Pecong (play) Wikipedia
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