PLAY TITLE:

GIRL TO BE NAMED LATER

BLURB:

Ooh Child Peach witnesses the murder of her prostitute mother.  What happens to Ooh Child when the event sends her into an abyss of assuming the personalities of everyone in her family until the personalities take over?

NUMBER OF ACTORS:

2 M/3F

LENGTH:

Full length

GENRE:

Drama

DEVELOPMENT STATUS:

World Premiere Production 1996 originally produced by MPAACT, Chicago, Illinois.  

SPECIAL AUDIENCE APPEAL:

African-American, performance art, poetry

SYNOPSIS:

Ooh Child Peach is a member of the Henderson family. There is Jetta, Ooh Child’s boy-hungry sister, Punchie, her brother and angry boxer, Bee, the bible thumping oldest sister, and Mamma Marilyn, the matriarch who also makes her living as a prostitute.  One night Marilyn’s pimp comes to collect his money from her, and a violent fight ensues.  Ooh Child witnesses the fight which ends in Mamma Marilyn being murdered.  Confused and shattered by watching her mother die, Ooh Child develops a multiple personality disorder which takes over her entire world.  What happens to Ooh Child and the Henderson family after Mamma Marilyn’s death?  GIRL TO BE NAMED LATER is a story about one family’s struggle to maintain it’s sanity as seen thru the eyes of it’s youngest child, Ooh Child.

SPECIAL AWARDS:

None