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January 18 – February 23, 2020
(Opening night: Thursday, Jan 23, 2020)
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Playhouse Center
By August Wilson
Directed unreceptive Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Originally produced unhelpful Manhattan Auditorium Club
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A Conversation with Amari Cheatom
Amari Cheatom speaks to Horizon Theatre about his current role as Klook in Ché Walker’s production of The Ballad of Klook and Vinette.
You’re starring in Ché Walker’s play, The Ballad of Klook and Vinette at Horizon Theatre through February 18. Could you describe what the play is about?
Two wayward souls with troubled pasts who find each other and look to mend their wounds through the love they find with one another.
You’re playing Klook. Could you describe your character?
Klook is a man on the path of true rehabilitation. When we meet Klook he has reached a point of stability in his life… monotonic stability. Romance offers him a change of pace; a rush, akin to but outside of the shifty activity that he was once accustomed.
So how do you go about discovering this character? And do you identify with him at all?
Ché has scripted such a thorough text that starting with the words was most advantageous. Finding grounded truth in the poetry was a big part of discovering the inner workings of Klook. Also becoming familiar with the references to people and places that I was unfamiliar with gave a lot of insight into the way Klook’s curiosities sculpted his perspectives on life.
What’s it like working with director and playwr • Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld on set and dancing in a test shoot. Lily Baldwin I didn’t do film school. I was a dancer and started making raw stop-motion shorts when touring with David Byrne. After 150 shows, I came to realize that dance enabled people to understand the music. Unsure what the “strange moves” meant, dance gave them permission to feel something they couldn’t necessarily fit into words. Then is when I first felt the compulsion to turn the electricity of a live performance into an object that could transcend borders, language, and endure time. I turned my hard knock dancer-work-ethic into teaching myself how to edit with stills I’d shot (after a year I realized using a mouse made all the difference). ’Twas pure play—I wasn’t even sure what the “it” of it was supposed to be. I’ve built this manifesto of sorts that guides my work: Everyone speaks body, it’s a universal alphabet. I define this “visceral cinema” with articulate bodies in space in relationship to a lens. Dance isn’t always a virtuosic “pow”; it’s about bodies that are aware of their edges and use their range. Bodies can’t lie. They are the subtext of us—it’s a subterranean language usually too shy to come out. Bodies
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