Current Productions
August Wilson Oratorical
Join us at for a performance at Marin Shakespeare Company on Saturday February 24 at 1pm.
This is our fourth annual oratorical performance highlighting essential Black American authors. Previous performances included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry + Langston Hughes.
Join us at 1pm for a chance to meet the actors and staff, have drinks and hors d'oeuvres and learn more about Griot Theater Company.
Stage readings and oratorical enactments start at 2pm.
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Past Productions
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Queen of Cubs: 2023 Workshop
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Liberating the Shrew
Loosely adapted from Taming of the Shrew, we cross-pollinated the show with bell hooks’ writing to explore feminism as it intersects with race and class.
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LH3
Celebrating work from Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and LeShawn Holcomb to honor Black authors and their legacy of documenting Black experiences in America
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The Hero In Her
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Straight Outta Grover’s Corner
Follow young people as they navigate through love, racial discrimination, and a desire to find liberation in a system against them.
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Queen Of Cubs: 2021 Workshop
An adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King where we follow Nana on new adventures. This play is not about love, but life and our responsibility in it.
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Oratorical: Who Is James Baldwin?
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.