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"Oni is the voice of Dunbar!"....Professor Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech
"Many hearts were touched by your rendition of 'Lias' Mother."
Debbie Allen: Actor, Director & Co-producer of Amistad
Los Angeles, California
"Oni Lasana Doin' Dunbar as 'Lias' Mother" is the most popular and longest running program.
In 1992, Oni researched Dunbar's life, studied his poetry and performed with the Bob Jones Dance and Theater Ensemble of the Coatesville Cultural Society of Chester County Pennsylvania.
The touring and annual presentations, "Lyrics Of Love and Laugh
"Oni Lasana Doin' Dunbar as 'Lias' Mother" is the most popular and longest running program.
In 1992, Oni researched Dunbar's life, studied his poetry and performed with the Bob Jones Dance and Theater Ensemble of the Coatesville Cultural Society of Chester County Pennsylvania.
The touring and annual presentations, "Lyrics Of Love and Laughter " featured the southern dialect spoken word poetry of the iconic poet & author, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).
"'Lias' Mother" Oni's solo (audience interactive) production is set during the 1800's on a plantation in Cross, So. Carolina, the home of Oni's paternal enslaved great grandmother, and grandmother, Victoria Brown.
'Lias' Mother reveals the personal heartfelt experiences of an enslaved woman living on a southern plantation during the Civil War in America.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's most loved and recited poem comes to life as Oni comforts her son Elias as only a mother can. With tender loving care, good advice and a little discipline.
* REPERTOIRE *
In The Morning
Possum
A Preference
When De Corn Pone's Hot
De Way T'ings Come
Keep A 'Pluggin' Away
A Coquette Conquered
My Sort O'Man
W
Paul Laurence Dunbar's most loved and recited poem comes to life as Oni comforts her son Elias as only a mother can. With tender loving care, good advice and a little discipline.
* REPERTOIRE *
In The Morning
Possum
A Preference
When De Corn Pone's Hot
De Way T'ings Come
Keep A 'Pluggin' Away
A Coquette Conquered
My Sort O'Man
When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers
Whistlin' Sam
When Malindy Sings
Philosophy
Angelina
De Critters' Dance
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
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Finale: Sympathy Rap-along
* PRESENTERS *
* PRESENTERS *
Many more, schools, family reunions, libraries, senior centers, residencies, workshops & storytelling festivals
ONI LASANA DOIN' DUNBAR AS 'LIAS' MOTHER
A one-woman theatrical interactive production features the pathos and humor of Paul Laurence Dunbar's most loved southern spoken words.
Musically interactive, Elias' mother tell stories about her enslaved family and friends. Set during the Civil War in the 1800's. Experience a unforgettable heartfelt journey in Music, Literature and American History.
~ LIVE APPEARANCES 2024 ~
MARCH 19, 2024 - Tuesday - 2:00 PM
BUCKS COUNTY NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION
Free Library Northampton Township,
25 Upper Holland Road
Richboro, PA 18954
APRIL 27, 2024
HAYTI COMMUNITY CENTER FUNDRAISER
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
"Thank you so much for coming to my retirement celebration and for sharing your special poetic skills to entertain me and my guest. As always, you were terrific! Your Dunbar sketches are so special because they keep our rich cultural alive, in the hearts and memory of our people. Tuta Anana Tena, Hotep! Fondly,
Carolyn L. Holmes, Ph.D. Director of African and African-American Studies Department, Philadelphia Board of Education Supervisor Prof. @ Drexel University, PA.
Dear Oni,
What a triumph! We actually had to turn fifty people away.
You were superb! The audience laughed and cried and laughed and got hungry and clapped and laughed some more.
We all absolutely loved you and can't wait until you are able to schedule us again.
Paul Laurence Dunbar would be extremely proud to see this daughter of the north, as he himself was a son of the north, taking up his voice to keep the hope, joy and dignity of a people now gone alive.
You made us all so very proud, Oni, to be children of the sun.
Your sister in poetry,
Nikki Giovanni
Tenured Professor of English, Virginia Tech University
March 1999
A mother tries not to lose her grace while calling her son to wake up for breakfast.....In The Morning, Paul Laurence Dunbar's most recited & loved southern dialect poem.
Mercer Museum, Pennsylvania
'Lias' Mother gives out higher educational life lessons.
Elias comes in all shapes, sizes and ages!
The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery, Latrobe, Pennsylvania 2016
"A MUST SEE!...Moving, enriching and a great addition to any college campus program...call her now!"
Kim Poast, Community College of Denver
Woman Of Color Conference
Storytelling ~ Theater ~ Language Art - Music ~ History ~ Wellness
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