SECRET: JOSEPHINE BAKER

SECRET is a multimedia theatrical production that details the collision of three fascinating historical characters. It tells a little-known story of art, politics, race, and media power that reverberates with some of the most important themes of 20th-century America. It explores why this story has remained a “secret,” and suggests the consequences of such incomplete knowledge for American society. The story is culled from thousands of pages of the FBI files of Josephine Baker, Walter Winchell, and J. Edgar Hoover. Fashioned out of “net accessible” documents, this mosaic makes theater and art out of a 1950’s surveillance data bank.



SECRET PLAY:
:: SECRET: Josephine Baker
:: opening
:: medal: 1 - 2 - 3
:: farce - talking - rap



PROJECTIONS:
:: Pulitzer: JB 1
:: Pulitzer: JB 2
:: Truck Screen: 1 - 2
:: WIU installation & projection



MULTIMEDIA:
:: JB: files - face
:: JEH: 1 - 2 - 3
:: Lower 48 - Lotions of Love



www.secretbaker.com

Mildred E. Bastian Center
Saint Louis Community College
5600 Oakland

February 25, 26, 27 & March 4, 5, 6 2005
Time 8 PM (Sunday the 27th and the 6th 3PM)