Singer, composer, and activist Toshi Reagon and her mother, artist Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock) bring science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s resonant and prescient Parable of the Sower to life in an evening-length congregational opera directed by Cal Shakes’ Eric Ting and Signe V. Harriday. Butler’s 1993 book and its sequel follow a young Black woman through a dystopian, apocalyptic American future, planting the seeds of a new religion that is fueled by empathy and collective action.
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Singer, composer, and activist Toshi Reagon and her mother, artist Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock) bring sci
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Eric Ting
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Signe V. Harriday
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