PLAY TITLE:

CHRIS T.

BLURB:

Using poetic hip hop verse, music, and movement, CHRIS T. traces a homeless hip hop artist, and is a meditation on how power leads to destruction, and how faith is the ultimate trump card in a world where greed appears to rule.

NUMBER OF ACTORS:

4M/2F

LENGTH:

Full length

GENRE:

Drama

DEVELOPMENT STATUS:

World Premiere Production 2000 originally produced by MPAACT, Chicago, Illinois.  

SPECIAL AUDIENCE APPEAL:

African-American, spoken word, performance poetry, political groups

SYNOPSIS:

CHRIS T. is a homeless, African-American hip hop artist, who begins to believe he is Jesus Christ after a nuclear explosion destroys the world.  Charles, the right hand man of Maximillian the Great (an African-American, Jewish, gay, president of the United States), decides to use Chris’ delusion to his advantage by staging his crucifixion, thereby stripping the people of their religious faith to gain control of this post-apocalyptic world and become its ruler.  Using poetic hip hop verse, music, and movement, CHRIS T. is a meditation on how power leads to destruction, and how faith is the ultimate trump card in a world where greed appears to rule.

SPECIAL AWARDS:

None