The total bent
By: text by Stew ; music by Heidi Rodewald and Stew
Contributors: Rodewald, Heidi, composer (expression)
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780822236405
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fathers and sons; Drama; African American fathers; Music
Description: When a British record producer arrives in Montgomery, Alabama to hook Marty Roy, a young black musical prodigy, he launches us back into Marty’s tumultuous upbringing. The son of a gospel star and self-proclaimed healer, Marty spent his childhood writing the songs that have made his charismatic father famous. But in a nation on the verge of social upheaval, with the rising heat from the street guiding his pen, Marty finds himself at odds with his spiritually forceful father as he strives to create a masterpiece that will change America—no matter the cost. A funny, fiery, one-of-a-kind show, THE TOTAL BENT is about the passions that divide a father and son as they make their music and make their choice between salvation and selling out.
Notes: 8 men, 4n/s.