Theater at Baranco

Roger Guenveur Smith returns to perform this theatrical monologue inspired by the life and work of Frederick Dougass, the self-liberated abolitionist and pioneering feminist. Smith has edited Douglass’s classic 19th-century texts into a jazz-infused narrative, bookended by his original writing, to produce the kind of edgy stylistic mash-up that makes up vital contemporary theater. Frederick […]

Roger Guenveur Smith returns to perform this theatrical monologue inspired by the life and work of Frederick Dougass, the self-liberated abolitionist and pioneering feminist. Smith has edited Douglass’s classic 19th-century texts into a jazz-infused narrative, bookended by his original writing, to produce the kind of edgy stylistic mash-up that makes up vital contemporary theater. Frederick […]