Woman Centered POC Performance It Was Never "Just" Sex
Jovelyn Richards explores the emotional DNA from our enslaved ancestors in this exciting new solo short play.

Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:30pm

at Allways Lounge & Cabaret
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It Was Never "Just" Sex.

Folks described her as: A Bitch, Indifferent or Cold.

He wanted to get to know her, to call her Baby. But at what price? Set in a bar somewhere between Then & Now. This is a journey with a map traveling back into the underbelly of enslavement.

Created and performed by improvisational solo performance artist: Jovelyn D. Richards

Solo performance artist Jovely Richards explores the emotional DNA in her new body of work: It Was Never Just Sex.

Set in present time in a Jazz club owned by Tootsie an African American woman often referred to as cold or worse. Closer to the truth Tootsie is the vessel for her once enslaved ancestor still seeking voice for the unimaginable pain she endured.

It Was Never Just Sex, written and directed by Jovelyn Richards is the 5th  of her Nappy Headed Love Story's: Black Love & Intimacy


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new orleans, la 70117

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