The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble Productions 

 

Saturday, April 15, 2023

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A Dramatic Reading by The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble 
 

Toledo Museum of Art in the GlasSalon - Glass Pavilion

2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH 43620

Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 1:00pm

Admission: By invitation Only Through Sign-Up Genius

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44AEAD23A3FEC07-adramatic

Optional Donation – A Minimum of $5.00
 

Donations Towards a BGSU Education Abroad Course for Performance at the Fringe Theatre Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland - Summer 2024 

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Park in lot 6. Validate lot 6 tickets at the Glass Pavilion Information Desk, Toledo Museum of Art.

Thank you! 

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Sept. 23, 24, 2022

 

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The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble Presents ….

A gathering of contemporary African, African Diaspora, and Indigenous plays:

• The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance by Diane Glancy - Excerpt (Indigenous - Cherokee)

• Closure, Barefoot, Locker, Backfire by Mary Weems - Excerpt (African American)

• Sango's Tale translated by Samuel Olugbeminiyi (West African – Yoruba)

• Tahinta! A Rhythm Play for Children by Efua Sutherland (West African – Akan)

 

Directed by D. A-R. Forbes-Erickson

Cast: Samson Akanni, Isabel Contreras, Kuhle Mbawu, Jon-Jama Scott & Chorus

Elsewhere 2022-2023 Season - Eva Marie Saint Theatre, Wolfe Center, Bowling Green State University

Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at 8pm, & Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at 8pm

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May 2020

Griot Ballads - (Parts I-IV), devised production and films, a Scholarly and Creative Activity Award  ​Griot Ballads (Part I)​, ​Griot Ballads (Part II)​, ​Griot Ballads (Part III)​, ​Griot Ballads (Part IV)​. Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performance for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2020 (Postponed to August 2022 – Due to COVID-19). 

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August 2019

Digital Masks to Africa ​– a devised performance of Cheikh Anta Diop: A Poem for the Living by Mwatabu Okantah. Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, Kent State University - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 5-14, 2019

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March 7, 2019

Digital Masks to Africa ​– a devised performance of Cheikh Anta Diop: A Poem for the Living by Mwatabu Okantah. Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble.  - Opening on March 7, 2019 at 7pm.

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November 15, 2018

An Echo in the Bone​ by Dennis Scott – Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, African Community Theatre, ORH Room 230. Opening on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7pm.

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March 8-11, 2018

​The Purple Flower​ by Marita O. Bonner –Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, African Community Theatre, ORH Room 230. Thursday-Saturday, March 8, 9, 10, 2018 at 8pm and Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 2pm.

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November 16-19, 2017

Vejigantes​ (Devil Mask) by Francisco Arrivί - Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, African Community Theatre, ORH 230. Thursday-Saturday, November 16, 17, 18 at 8pm, and Sunday, November 19 at 2pm.

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April 2017

Tahinta!: A Rhythm Play for Children​ by Efua Sutherland, Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble and the Kent State University African Theatre Ensemble, Virginia Hamilton Conference, Kent State University, April 2017.

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March 2017

Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks​. Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, The African Community Theatre, Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in March 2017.

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December 9, 2016

Tahinta!: A Rhythm Play for Children by Efua Sutherland​. Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble in collaboration with the Kent State African Ensemble and Musical Director Professor Janine Tiffe, In-the-round, The African Community Theatre, Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in December 9, 2016 at 7pm.

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November 2016

The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite​ by Wole Soyinka, Directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson. Performed by The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, Musical Director Darryl Lewis – Proscenium Arch, The African Community Theatre, Department of Pan-African Studies Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, November 2016.

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Festival Coordinator

• ​ – Workshop and Performances in the African Community Theatre (ACT) Solo Performance Festival – Special Guest, solo performer, poet, playwright, Dr. Mary Weems. Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, April 2019.

• Coordinator ​– ​New Black Plays –​ Invitational calling playwrights, theatre artists, and enthusiasts to write and produce new plays about the Black experience - During the Pan-African Festival and Conference, Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University – April 12-15, 2018.