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Two Monologues: “An Abbreviated History of My Hair” and “Strange Inequalities—Adjudicated
By Athena Persephoni
Created by Stephani Maari Booker
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2024 McKnight Foundation Fellow Stephani Maari Booker will perform the humorous memoir “An Abbreviated History of My Hair in Prose and with Rhyme and Music” and the sci-fi story “Strange Inequalities—Adjudicated.”
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The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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| Thu 07/31 | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/02 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/06 | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/09 | 1:00 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/10 | 5:30 PM |
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Stephani Booker
PerformerStephani Maari Booker is surviving the fire, plague and wrath of 2020s Minneapolis, MN, by creating works for the page and the stage in which she wrestles with her multiple marginalized identities: African American, lesbian, lower-class and disabled. She is a recipient of a 2024 McKnight Fellowship for Writers Administered by the Loft and a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grant. The author of "Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time" (Athena Persephoni Publications, 2018), she has nonfiction, science fiction and poetry in many publications. In 2024, under her Athena Persephoni business moniker, Stephani produced and performed in two shows entitled “Strange Inequalities: BIPOC & Working Classes vs. Near-Future Automated Oppression” with talent from BIPOC LGBTQIAA+ arts organization RARE Productions and funding by the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has also performed for Power to the People Stage at Twin Cities Pride, presented by RARE Productions; MN POC Pride; “Controlled Burn - Queer Performance for a World on Fire!” presented by 20% Theatre Company at Phoenix Theater; and “Revolutionary Jetpacks: Reclaiming the Future(s)” presented by Patrick’s Cabaret at Strike Theater. For more information about Stephani's work, go to www.athenapersephoni.com.
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Under her Athena Persephoni business moniker, North Minneapolis resident and 2024 McKnight Foundation Fellow Stephani Maari Booker will perform two monologues.
First, “An Abbreviated History of My Hair in Prose and with Rhyme and Music,” a humorous autobiographical monologue with musical accompaniment. With samples of music and recitations of snarky schoolyard rhymes she grew up with, she tells the story of my lifelong relationship with her hair, which was complicated by a racist society’s bias against its coiled texture. Through straightening processes which led to breakages, childhood bullying and ignorance about proper care of sub-Saharan African-textured hair, she eventually benefited from an Afrocentric resurgence that led her from loathing to loving her hair and herself.
Lastly, “Strange Inequalities—Adjudicated,” an in-character science-fiction monologue extracted from her novel in progress. The urban near-future of networked street traffic and driver-less cars doesn't stop Black Friday parking-lot rage from making Zora part of the "adjudicated": arrested, arraigned, and implanted with nanobots that record her every move. Correctional facilities have been abolished, but she now bears the burden of "law watch" everywhere she goes and with every relationship she has, especially her two children with her ex-spouse with whom she shares custody. This story depicts the painful impact of a future where mass incarceration has been replaced by mass surveillance, as film director Ava DuVernay has warned us.
This will be the second stage performance series that Athena Persephoni has produced. In 2024, Athena Persephoni produced two shows entitled “Strange Inequalities: BIPOC & Working Classes vs. Near-Future Automated Oppression” with a performance by Stephani Maari Booker of “Strange Inequalities—Adjudicated,” and with talent from BIPOC LGBTQIAA+ arts organization RARE Productions and funding by the Minnesota State Arts Board. This Athena Persephoni-produced show was made possible by Stephani Maari Booker's 2024 McKnight Fellowship for Writers Administered by the Loft.
