[In] Flight, ... to create an evening where these people would have to pull themselves up with the help of stories. |
But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stories for holidays and for weddings and for horrible events. |
I got Maxwell just before we moved to Los Angeles, |
I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day. |
I've done major rewrites, ... Instead of a kids play, it's now more of a multigenerational play, for a multigenerational audience. |
It was commissioned by Center Theatre Group's youth program, ... They wanted something based on storytelling, something suitable for whole families. It was supposed to incorporate Br'er Rabbit tales. But once I got into it, I thought, 'Forget Br'er Rabbit. Use human beings.' There are so very, very many African, African American, Caribbean and slave narratives to work with. |
You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree, |