Pecong (play)

Pecong
Written by Steve Carter
Date premiered January 9, 1990
Place premiered Victory Gardens Theatre
Chicago, Illinois
Original language English
Subject Retelling of the Medea (play)
Genre Drama
Setting c.1890s; Fictional Caribbean island.

Pecong is a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.

Original production

  • Directed by Dennis Zacek
  • Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
  • Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
  • Set designer: James Dardenne
  • Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
  • Lighting designer: Robert Shook
  • Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
  • Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
  • Choreographer: TC Carson
  • Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein

Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center[1]

Cast

Awards and nominations

  • 1990 Jeff Award, Best New Work
  • 1990 (Jeff Award), Willy Steele-Original Score
  • 1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)[2]

Publication

Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

References

  1. ↑ Carter, Steve (1993). Pecong (First ed.). New York: Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-88145-107-X.
  2. ↑ "Lit Lounge". San Francisco, California: Hotel Metropolis. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
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