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EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 24th, 2011! bonded by Donald Jolly | Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera | Produced by Playwrights’ Arena and the Latino Theater Company/LATC Sonny, Lily, and Jack, are the last remaining slaves on a crumbling, cash-strapped Virginia farm in 1820. When Asa, a “house boy” from New York, is brought in to help in the fields, repressed desires and memories of loss are unlocked, forcing Sonny and the other slaves to face their bridled passions and test the limits of the cruel world as they know it.
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Theater Review: ‘bonded’ at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
L.A. Times | Culture Monster | March 24, 2011 | by David C. Nichols
“To ignore history is to impede understanding of its ongoing impact, and therefore the course of progress. That is the determined aim of “bonded,” playwright Donald Jolly’s unsparing study of homosexuality within the legacy of slavery.” Read more….
WHY DID DONALD JOLLY WRITE BONDED?
LA Stage Times | Blog | March 18, 2011 | by Donold Jolly
Know who you is. Know who you is? What is you? Me: I am on a quest to exhume/resurrect my lineage. I am black and gay and I have something to say. But where, oh where is there a place for those like me in this sometimes-crazy and chaotic world?
My play bonded, which is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera for Playwrights’ Arena, is a re-imagined slave narrative set in 1820. Sonny, Lily and Jack are the last remaining slaves on a crumbling, cash-strapped Virginia farm. When Asa, a “house boy” from New York, is brought in to help in the fields, repressed desires and memories of loss are unlocked, forcing Sonny and the other slaves to face their bridled passions and test the limits of the cruel world as they know it. This play is about four people who are simply trying to endure. And then …what happens when Sonny and Asa fall for each other…. <<click here to continue reading
