In his brilliantly imagined, Obie Award-winning show, Roger Guenveur Smith explores the life of the controversial Black Panther leader through a series of improvisations based on Newton's own words and writings. In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California. In 1989, Newton was gunned down in Oakland during a drug-related incident. The intervening years saw Newton rise as an international symbol of organized resistance, while the government undertook a well-documented campaign to destroy the Party. Newton was incarcerated or in exile for a large measure of the era, a victim of official efforts and personal demons. His isolation fed an impossibly mythic image: The Supreme Servant of The People enthroned in black leather and beret, spear and rifle in hand. Newton is in fact a legal scholar who earned a PhD in social philosophy at UC Santa Cruz in 1980, and published several books, including To Die for The People (1972) and Revolutionary Suicide (1973). Jump to 1999 and Roger Guenver Smith's A Huey P. Newton Story is drawn largely from Newton s own words and illuminates his mythic rise and tragic fall. Mr. Smith s frequently improvised narrative is complimented by sound designer Marc Anthony Thompson s live mix of archival sounds and original music. Together they navigate Newton s cinematic stream of consciousness, from his Louisiana childhood to his untimely death on an Oakland street in 1989.
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He sends a chill down your spine. --- San Francisco Examiner
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. - --Los Angeles Times
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. - --Los Angeles Times
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. --- Los Angeles Times
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. - --Los Angeles Times
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. - --Los Angeles Times
Smith's meticulously researched solo performance illuminates with laser-like precision. --- Los Angeles Times
About the Author
Roger Guenveur Smith is an actor, writer, and director whose work has been distinguished with the Obie, Peabody, Audelco, Bessie, Helen Hayes, Barrymore, and NAACP Image Awards. He has served as Artist in Residence at the University of California, as NEA/TCG Playwright in Residence at the Mark Taper Forum, and has received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Charleston. Among Roger's many collaborations with director Spike Lee include Malcolm X, Summer of Sam, the telefilm version of A Huey P. Newton Story, and his improvised creation of the stuttering hero Smiley for the Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing. His eclectic range of screen credits also includes King of New York, Deep Cover, Eve's Bayou, All About the Benjamins, the telefilms Hamlet and The Color of Courage, and the innovative HBO series Oz and K Street .
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