Twilight Repertory Company is an interdisciplinary performing arts company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its mission is the presentation of topics that reflect the concerns of social justice, equal opportunity, and personal and social health and welfare. Twilight Rep is committed to the performance of underrepresented theatrical and dance forms, new work from playwrights of color, and deconstructed plays from the multicultural repertory.
Twilight Rep's was produced at the 2004 Fringe with its inaugural work simple thoughts, and in 2006 with the critically acclaimed ReQuiem For New 0rleans: A Hip Hop Eulogy. Its most recent productions include The Moon Prince: A Rap Opera (Book & Music by James Vesce, Lyrics by Marlon Carey), and Cherry Jackson's In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions, presented at Teatro LATEA in New York in 2016.
Twilight Rep has several new projects in development: empty, a dance theater piece based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus by New York-based artist Joe Salvatore; The Move, an adaptation of Mexican playwright Vicente Lenero's La mudanza; and The Life and Times of Jumpin' Jim Crow, an educational project focused on the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow culture in America.
Twilight Rep's was produced at the 2004 Fringe with its inaugural work simple thoughts, and in 2006 with the critically acclaimed ReQuiem For New 0rleans: A Hip Hop Eulogy. Its most recent productions include The Moon Prince: A Rap Opera (Book & Music by James Vesce, Lyrics by Marlon Carey), and Cherry Jackson's In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions, presented at Teatro LATEA in New York in 2016.
Twilight Rep has several new projects in development: empty, a dance theater piece based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus by New York-based artist Joe Salvatore; The Move, an adaptation of Mexican playwright Vicente Lenero's La mudanza; and The Life and Times of Jumpin' Jim Crow, an educational project focused on the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow culture in America.
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REVIEWS AND PROFILES
Features/Profiles
Charlotte Observer (The Purple Flower & Other Plays) Charlotte Observer (ReQuiem For New 0rleans/Twilight Rep) Charlotte Magazine (The Moon Prince: A Rap Opera) Full Reviews (New York) In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions - NY Times In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions - OnStage In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions - theasy.com ReQuiem For New 0rleans - BACKSTAGE ReQuiem For New 0rleans - nytheatre.com simple thoughts - BACKSTAGE simple thoughts - CurtainUp |
PRESS
In The Master's House There Are Many Mansions "This was an outlier: an ambitious revival in a festival dominated by new pieces." --- Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times " One of the most challenging pieces of theatre in FringeNYC 2016. This is a play that needs to be seen." - David Roberts, OnStage ReQuiem for New0rleans: A Hip Hop Eulogy "A sensitive dance-theatre work ... Requiem might constitute an important theatrical portrait of a disgraceful chapter in recent American history. Congratulations to the show's zealous cast."—BACKSTAGE "…what makes this show different … is the performer's level of commitment. This show is full of love, sadness, devastation, and anger. This show is one of awareness and action."—nytheatre.com "Angelic and earthy singing ... genuinely moving."—danceinsider.com "A truly lugubrious evening of innovative dance. Although the cornerstone of the concert is imposing requiem music, this benefit has funky, hip-hop ulterior motives - an evening that's downright uplifting."—Creative Loafing simple thoughts "James Vesce's Simple Thoughts breathes fresh air into Langston Hughes' well-known satirical narratives about Jesse B. Semple, a streetwise observer of black life in the 1940s. This hour-long drama is a solid first step in further dramatic exploration of this literary figure, and whets the appetite for more. The bluesy mood of the Harlem bar and Semple's bold pronouncements crystalize the double-sided consciousness of blacks struggling to live in a white world." —Jeanette Toomer, BACKSTAGE "Fringe followers this year have a chance to see a fine dramatization of Hughes' popular Everyman character Jesse B. Semple, known by the shorthand name of "Simple." This fine presentation by the Twilight Repertory Company from Charlotte, North Carolina, has been adapted and directed by James Vesce." —Brad Bradley, CurtainUp.com The Moon Prince: A Rap Opera The City Voices [production] of The Moon Prince is the brainchild of James Vesce. With a grant from the Arts and Science Council the program and show have come to fruition." —Lori Krimminger, Charlotte Magazine |