The Marsh Presents Rie Shontel’s MAMA JUGGS: THREE GENERATIONS HEALING FRACTURED BODY IMAGES Wednesday, October 7, 2009

One Performance Only!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7:30 pm on The Marsh MainStage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $10-15 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

In this intimate one-woman show, three women face late puberty, breast-feeding, old age and breast cancer in their Oakland Housing Project living room. The play is woven together with original a’capella breastfeeding songs and laughter.

Rie Shontel is a playwright, multi-medium artist, poet, and an award-winning radio journalist. An East Oakland, CA native, she grew up in an area called “Funk Town” where late night storytelling often took place under streetlights, affording her an opportunity to live vicariously through her neighbors. Rie recently performed her one-woman show “Mama Juggs” in Oakland, California; Durham, North Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina. As Anita Shontel Woodley, she has a Harry Chapin Media Award and an Emmy for coverage on CNN of the events of 9/11. She’s also written and produced a play called, “A Great Dream Now a Nightmare,” about African-American inner-city youth who ignore Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders sacrifices.
For more information visit, http://rieshontel.blogspot.com/