Jovelyn Richards'
COME HOME

January 31 thru March 8, 2008
thursdays, fridays & saturdays at 8pm

Opening night: Friday, February 8

“Jovelyn Richards is the kind of mesmerizing storyteller that can draw an audience's senses into the palm of her hand moments after she steps onstage.“ Megan Ma, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Rhodessa Jones came to see it this weekend. Here’s what she had to say: "Ms. Richards has that magic! She is a conjurewoman who weaves a fabulous tale of  lust, love, death and desire....it is so rare that black women get to share our love stories....A storyteller of the first order!!!"

After seeing Jovelyn Richards’ Come Home,  Nehemiah Pitts from Black Mask Magazine said: ”I want to tell Langston, that I saw Josephine Baker and Zora Neale Hurston on the same stage.”

Written and Performed by
Jovelyn Richards

Directed by
Adele Prandini

Musicians:
Violinist, Vocals
Kimberly Turner
Violinist
Rose Ketabchi
Vocals
Susan Appe
Pianist, Vocalist
David Ervin


80 minutes
no intermission

All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. 

This show is 16 and over.

Please do not bring infants to the show.

The Marsh is proud to present the world premiere of COME HOME, Jovelyn Richards’ new solo play about twenty-six black soldiers who leave their home in lynch-torn rural Arkansas to fight against Germany in the Second World War. There are thirteen survivors. Although the plot unfolds in the segregated South, COME HOME is timeless in its evocation of how war and violence can change a community and its way of life, both for the men who return and the families who waited for them. Richards’ heroine is Donna Ray, a joyous young bride romping in the fields as the play opens, a resilient Mrs. D at its close. Despite much violence and tragedy, her optimism and love never fade.
Richard's is accompanied by musicians who use a
lyrical mixture of blues and jazz to echo and heighten
what is happening on stage.