SPELL#7
by Ntozake Shange
Avery Brooks, Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Laurie Carlos, Reyno, LaTanya Richardson, Larry Marshall, Ellis “Skeeter” Williams, and Beth Shorter.
1979
New York Shakespeare Festival in New York, NY
This striking choreopoem by the author of For Colored Girls … is set in St. Louis in a bar frequented by Black artists and musicians. It is another meditation on the irony of being Black in a white world. The artists bare their souls in soliloquies, many of them illustrated by in the mood dances.

New York Shakespeare Festival production of “Spell #7.”
Avery Brooks, Mary Alice, Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Laurie Carlos, Reyno, LaTanya Richardson, Larry Marshall, Ellis “Skeeter” Williams, and Beth Shorter


New York Shakespeare Festival production of Spell #7
Reyno and Mary Alice

Avery Brooks, La Tanya Richardson, and Reyno.
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