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Terence E. Jackson

 

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Theatre

As a playwright, my works are often filled with characters struggling to maneuver through the complexities of daily living. People like you and me who if luck, from time to time find themselves at a crossroad that demands that they re-examine and expand upon the ways in which they have chosen to communicate with others.

Sometimes experimental, often times unconventional, my work ultimately speaks about the light and darkness of the human spirit.

It was in the theatre that I first learned to harness all of my magical powers. Below you will find a few of the many gems I have cultivated over the years in my humble attempt at speaking about the human experience.


Enjoy,

Terence

  • NOT FOR ME

    An African-American homeless person refuses to keep quiet about the indignancies brought about by those in society who claim to know better. 

    Not For Me gives voice to the many African-American men and women who find themselves marginalized by the system of poverty and a corrupt penal system. 

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  • The RECITATION of Forgetting

    The perceptions of three people are called into question when they find themselves unexpectedly confronted by the harsh reality surrounding the revelation that one of them has not been faithful.

    The Recitation of Forgetting is a play about personal needs, memory and the ways in which we manipulate them both in order to starve off loneliness.

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  • A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE

    A man stumbles upon a teenager sitting in a wooded area and agrees to make sure she gets home safely. But as their journey progresses, it becomes all too clear that their meeting is not bound by chance but by fate. 

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  • TAT or The Questioning of N-POW

    A wintry night of protest, changes everything for a group of unlikely sadomasochists. A senator and his house-boy find their closeted relationship being tested when a strange letter arrives at their door. Not wanting to be forced to choose between what is more important: stopping the protestors from prematurely ending his political career, or preserving his relationship with his lover, the arrogantly clever senator quickly realizes, if he is to remain on top, he will have to use his powers of coercion and manipulation on those closest to him.


    Hours later, across town, the senator’s press secretary, political analyst and secretary of new media, gather to await news from Frank, the senator’s chief-of-staff, regarding how to handle the protestors who are now right outside the office. As the minutes pass and optimism gives way to the palpable thought of losing their positions of contentment. The employees begin a verbal attack that unravels secrets and hidden resentments in an attempt to validate themselves by hurting each other.

    TAT or The Questioning of N-Power is an absurdist play about our political, racial, and sexual use of power and the ways in which we are willing to hurt ourselves and each other in order to hold on to it.

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  • The Journey

    A young person must decide whether to follow their heart or their head when it comes to trusting someone they barely know.

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  • THE DESCENDANTS

    Two men and a woman find themselves inescapably woven together by the mysterious hand of fate and the lasting impressions of the horrors of slavery. The play, set on a night one hundred days after the end of the civil war follows a traveler who had come to a river man seeking transportation for himself and a woman to cross a river.

    It is not clear as to where the traveler and the woman are heading. As there intention to travel deepens, the past and present collide and it becomes clearer that the three are bound in ways that if known could change their lives forever.

    A stirring and emotionally haunting portrait. The Descendants explores the psychologically oppressive weight of issues of abandonment and identity. Making the play highly rooted in cultural specificies that plague the African-American community even today.

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  • GONE WITH THE MEN

    A short genderbending melodrama of epic proportions.


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  • THE SITUATION

    'The Situation' is an absurdist play that uses a classic television show along with the concept of the 'Magic Negro' as a vehicle for the observation of racist ideologies prevalently woven with the beliefs, values, fears, prejudices & reflexes of present day America's social consciousness. 

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  • HERE

    Two men of color wishing to make a connection, find themselves playing a seductive game of cat and mouse.

    When Julius shows up one night, unannounced at Orlando's apartment, the two men find themselves playing a seductive game of cat and mouse as they attempt to connect with one another. But it soon becomes clear that if the two men are to honestly connect with one another, they will first; need to peel away layers of societal conditioning surrounding their own notions of race, gender and class.

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  • THE HOUSE OF BLUE EMBERS

    On a night like any other night, an actress' subconscious mind must decide if she will go on living or choose to commit suicide. 

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  • THE MUSIC THAT MAKES ME DANCE

    Two African-American men come to understand the true power of their love for each other in the wake of one of them becoming HIV Positive.

    The Music That Makes Me Dance is a multi-media play steeped in the rich tradition of the Black Aesthetics Movement (BAM). The play seamlessly melts together ritualistic theatre, contemporary african-American street dance, music and digital technology in order to look at the challanges facing Black gay & transgendered men and women in their quest for acceptance. The realities of racism, homophobia, family and social pressures as well as having to live in the age of HIV are all acutely touched upon in the play.

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