[NEohioPAL]FW: CPT Presents Nina Domingue's Mo Pas Connin - or Torment
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CPT PROUDLY PRESENTS
MO PAS CONNIN
or TORMENT
written and performed by
NINA DOMINGUE
FEBRUARY 8, 2006
The Big Hit of Big [BOX] 05
Returns in a Full Production
February 10 - 16
MO PAS CONNIN - or Torment
About Nina Domingue
MO PAS CONNIN - or Torment
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Nina Domingue
Written and performed by
Nina Domingue
Scenic and Lighting Design by
Richard H. Morris, Jr.
Costume Design by
Alison Garrigan
Production Stage Manager
Eileen Arnold
Directed by
Hassan Rogers
The divine Nina Domingue returns to CPT in her one woman show, a sold out
hit in last year's Big [BOX] series. "Mo Pas Connin - or Torment", set in
the balmy summer heat of New Orleans, tells the story of Miriam Waters, a 65
year-old inactive priestess of the goddess Mami Wata. Miriam receives
orders from her higher power to reconcile with her family or they will be
lost. Will the torment end? This tour-de-force performance introduces us
to 8 other souls with interweaving story lines and we learn about life in
the Big Easy, a life now possibly lost forever.
Performance Schedule for Mo Pas Connin
Thursdays at 7:30
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00
Sundays at 3:00
Ticket prices for Mo Pas Connin
Preview, Friday, February 10 - $10
All other performances:
Thursdays/Sundays
$15 general admission, $12 seniors, $10 under 25
Fridays/Saturdays
$19 general admission, $15 seniors, $10 under 25
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Nina Domingue as the Venus Hottentot in the CPT production of "Venus" by
Suzan-Lori Parks
Nina Domingue (Playwright and Performer) is a native New Orleanian. She was
last seen on the CPT stage in "Mrs Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge",
and has performed leading roles in the CPT productions, "Venus", "Nickel and
Dimed", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin." She recently performed at Great Lakes
Theater Festival in "Merry Wives of Windsor" and "You Can't Take It With
You," and Karamu's "For Colored Girls...." She was the first
African-American woman to graduate from the Master's Program for Acting at
West Virginia University, where she began to develop "Mo Pas Connin - or
Torment." "It is important to me to be a part of work that establishes a
more normative standard of representation for women; especially women of
color. To deny any of our stories is to ultimately deny our own humanity."
In his January 7, 2005 article about CPT's Big [BOX] Series and "Mo Pas
Connin" in the Plain Dealer, Tony Brown wrote:
"Nina Domingue was born and grew up in the steamy gumbo pot of New Orleans,
black and Catholic and the daughter of a woman who committed suicide when
Domingue was 4.
As such, she has a lot of ghosts (including the Holy Ghost) rattling around.
"And they keep talkin' to me," said Domingue, one of Cleveland's most
exciting twentysomething stage actors.
"Mo Pas Connin" is Creole for "I don't know," the opening of an expression
meaning, "I don't know what it is that torments me so," and is pronounced
moe-pock-uh-neen.
"Mo Pas Connin" is nothing but thorny issues, perhaps most prominently is
the whole idea of "color" and its gradations.
Each of the nine characters - beginning with narrator Miriam Waters, a
65-year old priestess of the goddess Mimi Wata - is identified in Domingue's
script by the relative darkness or lightness of her skin.
"I identify as an African-American in Cleveland," said Domingue, who has -
as she describes Christine, a character in "Mo Pas Connin" very much like
Domingue herself - "a fair complexion, more olive-toned."
"But in New Orleans, I would be identified as Creole," descended from the
original white French settlers of Louisiana and black West Africans. "I
know black Domingues, Creole Domingues and white Domingues."
The color thing is only one of many issues Domingue works out in "Mo Pas
Connin," including religious issues in heavily Roman Catholic New Orleans.
Much of the artist's baggage comes into play when Christine - the character
most like Domingue - talks about her mother's suicide.
"In the the Catholic Church, everything is the devil, and suicide is this
great sin," Domingue said. "After her death, nobody could even talk about
her, and she couldn't be buried in sacred ground. My mother's family is from
here, so she's buried here, where no one knows."
Domingue began writing the play while in the graduate acting program at West
Virginia University, where in 2002 she became the first black woman to earn
a master's degree. She performed it there and then did it in her
undergraduate alma mater, Dillard University, a historically black school in
New Orleans.
In addition to being busy onstage since her arrival on the Cleveland scene
even before she started graduate school in West Virginia, Domingue has also
been busy on the personal front. She met a man, real estate and professional
percussionist Jonathan Glover, got married and has a 4-year old daughter,
Jinle (a Yoruba name pronounced gin-LAY.)
But even that has a theatrical angle. Her father-in-law, Hassan Rogers, is a
director. He introduced the happy couple and will direct "Mo Pas Connin."
"When I got her here, I said, 'I'm not letting you leave Cleveland,' Rogers
said. "My son was instrumental in doing that."
Cleveland Public Theatre's Arts and Education Programs are supported in part
by:
The Ohio Arts Council
The George Gund Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation
And by Season Sponsors:
Jakprints
Cleveland.com
Cleveland Magazine
Incite Creative
And through the generosity of those who contribute to our Annual Fund.
THANK YOU!
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<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
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in a Full Production</span></font></b></strong><br>
</span></font></b><strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
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<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Written and performed by <br>
<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>Nina
Domingue</span></font></b></strong></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Scenic and Lighting Design by =
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<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>Richard
H. =
Morris</span></font></b></strong></span></font><strong><b><font
size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>, =
Jr.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Costume Design by <br>
<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>Alison
Garrigan</span></font></b></strong></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Production Stage Manager<br>
<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>Eileen
Arnold</span></font></b></strong></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Directed by <br>
<strong><b><font face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>Hassan
Rogers</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The divine Nina Domingue =
returns to
CPT in her one woman show, a sold out hit in last year's Big =
[BOX]
series. "Mo Pas Connin - or Torment", set in the balmy =
summer
heat of <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">New =
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>,
tells the story of Miriam Waters, a 65 year-old inactive =
priestess of
the goddess Mami Wata. Miriam receives orders from her =
higher
power to reconcile with her family or they will be lost. =
Will the
torment end? This tour-de-force performance introduces us =
to 8
other souls with interweaving story lines and we learn about =
life in
the Big Easy, a life now possibly lost =
forever.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font size=3D2 =
color=3D"#ff3300"
face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:#FF3300'>Performance Schedule for Mo Pas Connin<br>
Thursdays at 7:30<br>
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00<br>
Sundays at 3:00</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack =
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style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Nina =
Domingue
as the Venus Hottentot in the CPT production of =
"Venus" by
Suzan-Lori Parks</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Nina Domingue (Playwright and
Performer) is a native New Orleanian. She was last seen on =
the
CPT stage in "Mrs Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas =
Binge",
and has performed leading roles in the CPT productions,
"Venus", "Nickel and Dimed", and "Uncle =
Tom's
Cabin." She recently performed at Great Lakes Theater
Festival in "Merry Wives of Windsor" and "You =
Can't Take
It With You," and Karamu's "For Colored =
Girls...."
She was the first African-American woman to graduate from the =
Master's
Program for Acting at <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">West
Virginia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
where she began to develop "Mo Pas Connin - or =
Torment."
"It is important to me to be a part of work that =
establishes a
more normative standard of representation for women; especially =
women
of color. To deny any of our stories is to ultimately deny =
our
own humanity."</span></font><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack =
face=3DVerdana><span
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> =
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>In his January 7, 2005 article about CPT's Big [BOX] =
Series
and "Mo Pas Connin" in the Plain Dealer, Tony Brown =
wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"Nina Domingue was born and grew up in the steamy =
gumbo
pot of <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">New =
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>,
black and Catholic and the daughter of a woman who committed =
suicide
when Domingue was 4.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>As such, she has a lot of ghosts (including the Holy =
Ghost)
rattling around. "And they keep talkin' to me," said
Domingue, one of <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City>'s
most exciting twentysomething stage =
actors.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"Mo Pas Connin" is Creole for "I don't
know," the opening of an expression meaning, "I don't =
know
what it is that torments me so," and is pronounced =
<em><i><font
face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>moe-pock-uh-neen</span></font></i></em>.</s=
pan></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"Mo Pas Connin" is nothing but thorny issues,
perhaps most prominently is the whole idea of "color" =
and its
gradations.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>Each of the nine characters - beginning with narrator =
Miriam
Waters, a 65-year old priestess of the goddess Mimi Wata - is
identified in Domingue's script by the relative darkness or =
lightness
of her skin.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"I identify as an African-American in <st1:City =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City>," said =
Domingue, who
has - as she describes Christine, a character in "Mo Pas
Connin" very much like Domingue herself - "a fair =
complexion,
more olive-toned."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"But in <st1:City w:st=3D"on">New =
Orleans</st1:City>, I
would be identified as Creole," descended from the original =
white
French settlers of <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Louisiana</st1:place></st1:State>
and black West Africans. "I know black Domingues, =
Creole
Domingues and white =
Domingues."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>The color thing is only one of many issues Domingue =
works out
in "Mo Pas Connin," including religious issues in =
heavily
Roman Catholic New Orleans.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>Much of the artist's baggage comes into play when =
Christine -
the character most like Domingue - talks about her mother's =
suicide.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>"In the the Catholic Church, everything is the =
devil, and
suicide is this great sin," Domingue said. "After her =
death,
nobody could even talk about her, and she couldn't be buried in =
sacred
ground. My mother's family is from here, so she's buried here, =
where no
one knows."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>Domingue began writing the play while in the graduate =
acting
program at <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">West Virginia</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, where
in 2002 she became the first black woman to earn a master's
degree. She performed it there and then did it in her
undergraduate alma mater, <st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">Dillard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType>, a =
historically
black school in <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">New =
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>In addition to being busy onstage since her arrival on =
the <st1:City
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:City> scene even before she started =
graduate
school in <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">West =
Virginia</st1:place></st1:State>,
Domingue has also been busy on the personal front. She met a =
man, real
estate and professional percussionist Jonathan Glover, got =
married and
has a 4-year old daughter, Jinle (a Yoruba name pronounced =
<em><i><font
face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-family:Verdana'>gin-LAY</span></font></i></em>.)</span></fo=
nt><o:p></o:p></p>
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana'>But even that has a theatrical angle. Her =
father-in-law,
Hassan Rogers, is a director. He introduced the happy couple and =
will
direct "Mo Pas Connin."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3D2 face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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leave <st1:City
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:City>,' <st1:City =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:City>
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that."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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