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GODDESS CITY

Antoy Grant, Abiola Abrams, Kimberly Howard.

Abiola Abrams, Khuyki Bermudez & the fabulous Antoy Grant.

Abiola Abrams, Antoy Grant. Bridget Kelso.

FEEDBACK FROM CURRENT NYU FRESHMAN 2008

"I thoroughly enjoyed it! This play is sooo important to my generation as a whole but especially women. The mythology, meets hip-hop, meets a sort of modern day shakespeare aspect of it really drew me in. It was one of those things where a lot of parts I could really identify with but then adding this whole realm of goddesses was really empowering and made me regard the content with a new divinity essentially. My favorite parts were "New Girl Order", "Am I Pretty" "Mad Poet" "Gone" with "Groceries" immediately following. Everything was just so prevalent and important!"

Hip Hop Musical Play

60 minutes

CREATED BY
ABIOLA ABRAMS

WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY
ABIOLA ABRAMS &
ANTOY GRANT

DIRECTED BY
DANIEL BANKS

GODDESS CITY blends ritual, storytelling, songs & theatrics. This concert/ play explores the beauty myth, rap culture, rape, female genital circumcision & sexuality.

GODDESS CITY is a hip hop poetry play that blends ritual, story telling, songs & theatrics. This concert/ play explores the beauty myth, rap culture, rape, female genital circumcision & sexuality. When Abiola was in her early 20s, she co-wrote the play with Antoy Grant, under the direction of Daniel Banks.

Goddess City premiered at The National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem after being developed at The Present Company. The show was introduced by Ossie Davis at The Schomburg Center.

This innovative play was also seen at: (select list) Amiri Baraka's Kimako's Blues People, The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, CBGB's Gallery, New York Theater Workshop (as a reading), The International Fringe Festival, Museum of the City of New York, Danny Simmons' Corridor Gallery, The Thalia Theater & on VH-1.

Abiola also performed a poem from the play in Spike Lee's i/am/dot/com commercial that premiered during the Academy Awards on 2002.

A GODDESS ODYSSEY by Abiola Abrams was taught in Ghana & in NYU's Undergraduate Drama department by Dr. Daniel Banks. The play will also be featured in a forthcoming critical anthology, ACROSS ALL LINES, edited and with commentary by Dr. Daniel Banks.

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