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Donnetta joins Jeff Biehl, Bartley Booz, Cricket Brown, Bruce McKenzie, Bobby Moreno, Tom Pecinka, and Marianne Rendóncast in the World Premiere of Ann Washburn's newest play at The Vineyard Theater.

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About the play:

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Somewhere in foggy Northern California, an intentional community tries to live off the land and keep an unsteady world at bay. But when one of their own dies unexpectedly, ideals are tested and faith in their independence is rocked. The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire is a tender, funny, probing story about a death, a pageant, a rescue, a resurrection, pigs, and the act of saying grace. The kids may not be all right.

This world-premiere play reunites renowned playwright Anne Washburn and Obie-Award winning director Steve Cosson, following their acclaimed collaborations on Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play.

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October 23 - November 30

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Commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as part of their New Southern Canon initiative, Kudzu Calling is a theatrical interweaving of poetry-rich scenes that seek to expand and complicate the Southern narrative. A celebration of Black Southern Love, Black Southern Queerness, Black Southern Playfulness, Culture, and Spirituality. It examines what it truly means to return home. At its core, it is Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ love letter to the place that made the Whiting Award-winning playwright.

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KUDZU CALLING

May 29–June 8, 2025

By Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Octagon Stage | Recommended Ages 17+

*World Premiere​

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Read more about the New Southern Canon: 

 

https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/07/17/alabama-shakes-announces-commissions-writers-to-create-new-southern-canon/

The Literary Ancestry Essay Series (Curated by playwright Dave Harris) aims to create a collection of personal craft essays by living Black playwrights about the non-living Black playwrights that live on in their work. For this series, we commissioned playwrights to pick one play by a non-living Black playwright and write about how this play impacted their artistry. The essays in this round are written by Vivian J.O. Barnes, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Nathan Alan Davis, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, and Dave Harris.

 

https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/literary-ancestry-essay-series

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While on a quest to complete her teenage bucket list, a young woman finds romance, uncovers family secrets, and rediscovers herself.

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Donnetta joins Sofia Carson, Kyle Allen, Sebastian de Souza, and Connie Britton in The Life List, only on Netflix, on March 28, 2025. 

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Donnetta is thrilled to be the first commissioned playwright for the South Carolina New Play Festival.  She is humbled to return to her home state to tell a story inspired by Greenville, SC native and folk legend Josh White.