Organization

Admin

West Edge Opera

Conductor

Emily Senturia

Stage director

NJ Agwuna

Singer

Shawnette Sulker

Bulrusher

Kenneth Kellogg

Logger

Rebecca Cuddy

Madame

Briana Hunter

Vera

Matt Boehler

Schoolch

Chad Sommers

West Edge Festival

English

Berkeley

United States

Bulrusher Stookey

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Private

Cristina Pardo Ramírez

Approved

Bulrusher is a coming of age story about an African-American girl growing up in Northern California’s remote Anderson Valley in 1955. Found in a basket by the river, she is raised by the local schoolteacher and has never seen anyone that looks like her until a young Black woman from Alabama comes to town. Meeting someone like herself opens a political, sexual and identity awakening within her.

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Bulrusher is based on Eisa Davis’ play of the same title, short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.

Bulrusher by Stookey, Thu 15 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by NJ Agwuna,, Conductor Emily Senturia

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