“When Struggle Gave Improvisation the Blues”

A Play by Charles Blackwell

Saturday August 12, 2023 | 3-5pm

At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

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“When Struggle Gave Improvisation the Blues” is a two act theater-poetry-performance play by the artist, poet, and playwright Charles Blackwell. 

It is a play about jazz music in relationship to the African American socio-political and socio-cultural events of the 1950’s and 1960s. The play is written in poetic form. It captures historical events with short lines related to episodes in history. Other parts of the play are interwoven in fictional poetic lines to present the mood of the jazz idiom. Join us for this special reading of this original work at the Tenderloin Museum, featuring several familiar faces from the neighborhood in the cast. A special Saturday afternoon program!

Featuring Shavonne Allen, Howard Jennings Jr., Greg Pond, Sylvester Guard Jr., Sawyer Arkilic, Barbara Saunders, and Charles Curtis Blackwell.

Made possible with support from Hospitality House