The M Ensemble presents the Florida premiere of Harlem Duet
M Ensemble Company presents Harlem Duet By Djanet Sears
March 8-25, 2012
Thursdays-Saturdays:8:00pm
Sundays: 3pm
The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse
404 NW 26 Street
Miami, FL 33127

Opening Night Fundraiser & Reception $40
General Admission $25
Students & Seniors $20
For reservations, call 786-953-8718; email -tgcooper@aol.com or visit www.themensemble.com
Group discounts are available.

As the play opens in Harlem in the 1990s, a young black teacher at Columbia University, Othello, has just walked out on his wife of nine years, graduate student Billie, to marry Mona, a white colleague on the Upper East Side. Flashbacks link their entanglement to other aspects of the North American black experience: a slave couple planning an escape to Canada on the Underground Railroad in 1860 and a classical actor reduced to playing in black minstrel shows in 1928. In all three cases, “Othello” wants to experience the advantages of the predominant white society.

The New York Times praised the play’s “undeniable emotional power.” Variety called it “an ambitiously complex and satisfying work about interracial marriage, ghettos and the whitening of black history and culture.” The Toronto Star wrote, “This is an impressive achievement, an ambitious and accomplished work with scope and the vision to realize it, a drama filled with intelligence and compassion, humor and anger, outrage and understanding.”