Name: dwb (driving while black)
Start: 2023-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mainframe Studios

Organization

Des Moines Metro Opera

Stage director

Chip Miller

Singer

Soprano

Roberta Gumbel

Instrumentalist

Cremaine Booker

Cello

David Leon Verin

Percussion

Béarla

dwb (driving while black)

Indianola

United States

Grand View University

Viking Theatre

Cedar Rapids

African American Museum of Iowa

West Des Moines

Lutheran Churche of Hope

Des Moines

Mainframe Studios

dwb (driving while black) Kander, S.

Public

Approved

Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel's dwb (driving while black) tackles what it means to be a parent of a Black child who starts driving. In its swift 45 minutes, the listener spends 16 years with a Black mother, feeling her growing fear as her Black son moves towards driving age.

“The deeply affecting and innovatively conceived new chamber opera dwb (driving while black) makes its powerful impact with deliberately limited forces. The piece, by composer Susan Kander and first-time librettist Roberta Gumbel, is a 45 minute monodrama for female voice. The instrumentation, consisting only of cello and percussion, is refreshingly spare and surprisingly multicolored.…” (Opera News)

dwb (driving while black) will be presented at Mainframe Studios on July 8, Hope+Elim Church on July 15, and Viking Theatre at Grand View University on July 21. Each performance will feature a community talkback session immediately following the opera.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht