–Justin HayfordĪrt accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Roger Guenveur Smith photo by Jay Blakesberg. February 19 through 21: Friday-Saturday, 8 PM Sunday, 3 PM. Museum of Contemporary Art, theater, 220 E. Smith is an electrifying performer, piecing Newton’s writings and recorded interviews into a thrillingly contradictory portrait of a tortured visionary ultimately he forces us to wonder why Newton’s furious demands for “revolutionary” changes like adequate health care, education, and job training for the poor are still unmet. But given the turmoil of Newton’s short life–he was cofounder of the Black Panther Party, an acquitted murderer, a political exile, and a doped-up recluse–only an evening this unsettling could do the man justice. It’s something of an endurance test to witness his bursts of poetry and paranoia, brilliance and buffoonery, as he sits behind a microphone and fidgets under the audience’s gaze as if their attention made his skin crawl. Rather than provide a neat biography of the political activist, philosopher, poet, and crack addict, Smith forces his audience to stomach a mock press interview, as a wired and at times nearly incoherent Newton squirms and flails like an insect pinned to a corkboard. Newton Story on one simple fact: there’s nothing entertaining about Newton or the political life that both inspired and destroyed him. It seems Roger Guenveur Smith based his startling one-man show A Huey P. The UnGala is back! Clic k here for the ticket link for this year's celebration at Epiphany Center for the Arts on Oct. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.So my father broke friendship with him on principle, cause that's the kind of man my father was, he was a man of high standing principle. And this friend of his got a good job with the Oakland Public Works Department, something like that, but he quit that job cause he took a new job with the Oakland Police Department.… My father broke friendship with him, not because he joined the police force… he broke his friendship with him because his friend was only allowed to arrest black people. With Huey Luna Ray orchestrated a diverse group of parties including Spike Lee, Huey Newton’s heirs, PBS, the National Black Programming. My father came out to California with another good friend of his who was also trying to support a large family. Newton, charismatic co-founder of the revolutionary Black Panther Party, tells the riveting story of his life and times in this one-man show.Newton Story (2002) by Roger Guenveur Smith to what extent this play creates a portrayal or quotes statements of Newton is not clear. That man will just come out and hook me off the stage." What's his name? The sandman? Yeah, the sandman cometh. Somebody's gonna assassinate you from the balcony." I said, "Listen, if I'm ever foolish enough to get up on stage at the Apollo Theatre, they wouldn't need to assassinate me. And somebody called me, said, "Huey, we gonna have to cancel the rally. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.The story of how the radical. Came to New York and I was supposed to speak at the Apollo Theater - 125th Street. To tell you the truth, I hate stages cause they put you up on a stage and expect for you to entertain them and I keep trying to tell them I'm not an entertainer. I hate cameras, microphones stuck up in my face. But I really do not enjoy discussing the details of my personal life except as it relates to the movement. I do have a role to play however - I'm a theorist of sorts - I work on theories. I wouldn't consider myself to be very charismatic I never did anything hero-like, I just worked on some little community programs. Newton’s life and time as a person, a citizen and an activist. In this performance, Smith creates a representation of the activist Huey P. The movie was created, written and performed, as a solo performance, by Roger Guenveur Smith at The Joseph Papp Public Theater. In the Beginning: Bible Stories for Children by Sholem Asch. Newton Story (2001) is an American film adaptation directed by Spike Lee.
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