Black Poetry Theatre’s New Season Kickoff! 

Reception & Presentation

Doors 7pm | Show 8:00pm

Hayti Heritage Center | 804 Old Fayetteville St | Durham, NC 27701

FREE with RSVP

Come and hear about the productions in BPT’s upcoming season. Meet the BPT founders and staff. Learn about BPT’s mission. Purchase single show or season tickets!

Featuring a staged reading of one of last season’s highlight productions…

Inside Studio Real: A choreopoetic sitcom

Created by Dasan Ahanu

This is the made up story, of creatives, hired to be cast members on a popular radio program, work together, and not complain about their paychecks. Find out what happens when people who don’t know we are watching start getting real. Inside Studio Real is a wild ride full of music, dance, song, and poetry all delivered in dramatic episodic absurdity. Actors are beloved for how they play their role, but wait until you see how much of a character they are when they are being themselves. Each cast member called to bring the scripts they are presented with to life on the radio while filling the studio with their lives (and all that comes with it) during the process. Don’t be scared if you see a bit of yourself on stage, it’s all part of the show. 

RSVP online or in person at the Hayti Heritage Center box office.

For more info contact: blackpoetrytheatre@gmail.com or 980-552-0107

Presented in conjunction with the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center (www.hayti.org)

Black Poetry Theatre seeks to expand the understanding of spoken word and foster greater appreciation for the power of contemporary poetry by presenting it in traditional theatrical settings, raising cultural awareness through the use of the performing arts and telling necessary stories from within our communities. Founded in 2008 by Church Da Poet and Dasan Ahanu, Black Poetry Theatre creates and presents original poetry and spoken word based theatrical productions.