The Kohl Players

Kohl Players' Summer Schedule 2010

Great Plains Theater Conference

Omaha, NE. May 29–June 6, 2010

Mainstage Evening performance of Turpentine Jake Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 7:30pm, Omaha Community Playhouse.

http://www.mccneb.edu/theatreconference/

American Folklore Society Annual Meeting

Nashville, TN. Oct. 13–16, 2010

"Turpentiner Rhetoric: The Lore of Spoke Word Resistance".

http://afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm

Turpentine Jake wins 2009 NAACP Theatre Award!

Rae'ven Larrymore-Kelly takes home "Best Lead Actress in a Local Production" honors for Turpentine Jake at 2009 NAACP Theatre Awards held Monday, August 31 at the Director's Guild of America. Turpentine Jake, the first production staged by The Kohl Players, Los Angeles-based Theater Company, received two nominations at the 2009 NAACP Awards. Lauren Bernard also received a nod for Best Costume Design in a Local Production.

Lauren Bernard, Derek Shaun, Rae'ven Larrymore-Kelly, Linda Bannister, and James E. Hurd, Jr., at the NAACP Theater Awards

Lauren Bernard, Best Costume Design Nominee; Derek Shaun, "Tush" in Turpentine Jake, Rae'ven Larrymore-Kelly, Best Lead Actress Winner; Linda Bannister, Co-Author and Producer; James E. Hurd, Jr., lead actor "Jake," Co-Author and Co-Director.

New Work

James E. Hurd, Jr. and Linda Bannister have co-written (with several other playwrights) a new play, On the Front Line: Three Generations of Soldiers' Voices, directed by Judith Royer, CSJ.
James E. Hurd, Jr. also has a starring role in the production.

Upcoming performances:

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 8:00am at A.T.H.E. (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Conference, Century Plaza Hotel, Century City, CA. Discussion to follow at 9:30am.

Turpentine Jake

Turpentine Jake by Linda Bannister and James E. Hurd, Jr.

Turpentine Jake is a slice-of-life in the Florida Turpentine camps of the 1930s, where Black workers were enslaved under “debt peonage.“ This is the true story of one man who escaped. Play includes original work songs and folk tales.

Praise for Turpentine Jake

talented cast
rich source material
riveting and dangerous story
well crafted setting
work songs… add texture to the fabric of the story
the story needs to be told
meditation on injustice and folk wisdomL.A. Weekly 8/7/2008

Trailer

Trailer Edited by Randy Bobbitt

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