During the wake of COVID-19, we are creating work to maintain our creativity and sanity. For every weekend during the US mandate to stay healthy, stay safe, and stay home - monologues about the beginning, middle, and end of the coronavirus pandemic are uploaded. This event was held on Facebook, on June 13, 2020, during the US mandate to Stay Home & Stay Safe. Three monologues were written by each of the playwrights Terrence Riggins and Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio, Rafael wrote his three monologues in Spanish.
During the weeks of June 1st and June 8th, Vintage Soul Productions developed monologues centralized around the theme: Social Justice. We cannot be silent.
“Black, White, and Blue,” was a monologue written by Terrence Riggins. It was rehearsed and performed by Brooke Harrsch as part of Round 9 of the Quick Quarantined Play Festival by Vintage Soul Productions.
Monologue Synopsis: A white rookie cop faces a personal and professional crisis when she physically intervenes against her partner’s use of excessive and brutal force at a Black Lives Matter protest.
About the Playwright:
Terrence Riggins is best known for his roles as Spider in What's Love Got To Do With It? and Don Navarone in the CBS soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful. He has appeared in episodes of Seinfeld and Law and Order. He began his Equity career in the title role of August Wilson's “King Hedley II” under the direction of the late Israel Hicks for the Denver Center Theatre Company where he was an acting company member. He then went on to play Stanley and Thorvald, respectively, in the company's adaptation of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “A Doll's House.” He has appeared as Harmond Wilks, Caesar Wilks, and Walter Lee Younger also under the direction of Mr. Hicks, whom he credits along with August Wilson with reawakening his passion for the theatre. Mr. Riggins is also a produced playwright whose play “Otis and Zora” produced by The Billie Holiday Theatre garnered several Audelco Award nominations. His solo shows, “A Ritual Journey Toward Unbecoming Tragedy and The Picasso Incident”, and his multi-character play, “Bastardis Eclipsus”, are currently in development.
eclipsues@gmail.com, terrenceriggins.com.
For more information about Quick Quarantined Festival, please contact: smsellem@vintagesoulproductions.com or visit: www.VintageSoulProductions.com