RUMOURS OF WAR (2011)
ArtSpot Productions remounted its epic 2001 performance Rumours of War as part of the 2011 bicentennial commemoration of Louisiana’s 1811 Slave Revolt. The performance took a journey through the grounds of the New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM) as it presents a fictional and magical account of events that occurred at the Andry Plantation on a January night in 1811. The audience moves through songs and gardens, memories and living sculptures to honor the people and ideas that infused the 1811 Slave Revolt. Rumours of War is a performance event that unites a multi-cultural, multi-generational group of New Orleans artists to examine a piece of our community’s buried history, to commemorate the bicentennial of an act of resistance by enslaved Africans in Louisiana, and to explore ways to improve our shared present and future.
Script: Kathy Randels
Directors: Monique Moss, Kathy Randels
Design: Jeff Becker, Shawn Hall
Music: Sean LaRocca, special music and dance performances by Ausettua AmorAmenkum and Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective
Performers: Kathy Randels, Monique Moss, Ausettua AmorAmenkum, Ray Vrazel, Michael “Quess” Moore, Martin Bats Bradford, and Michael Quintana