Our Lives Our Voices Our Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495202025)

Charles David Brooks, III is Director of Theatre Ensemble at Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to teaching theater, he has either acted in, written, directed, produced, staged or in some other capacity, been involved in theater most of his life. Our Lives Our Voices Our Music is a compilation of five dramatic theatrical pieces. Four of the plays were written by Brooks, himself., while the last work, The Brothers, was written by ancient playwright, Terence (Publius Terentius Afer - 195/185-159 BC). Terence, was from the Roman Republic, and of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170-160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived. Our Lives Our Voices Our Music is a dramatization that reveals ancient ancestral characters emerging from within the spirit world to enlighten the world about man's misdeeds on humanity. Affairs of Our Ancestors depicts an ancient spiritual council assembling in order to communicate with the present generation with a much needed message about spiritual and cultural awareness to this world. HELP A play about bondage, oppression and of refugees. It includes "Slave Narratives" as prepared by the Federal Writers' Project. SHELTER is an important piece that characterizes different quandaries of mankind that lead to homelessness and the need for camaraderie, in spite of.

Author: Charles David Brooks III
ISBN-10: 149520202X
ISBN-13: 9781495202025
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2014
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.43d