GREAT SPEECHES FROM BLACK HISTORY (1993)

GREAT SPEECHES FROM BLACK HISTORY (1993)

Written and directed by David Woods  Selected great speeches from Black History performed by Voices actors with vocal accompaniment by the Voices Singers.  Speeches include Marcus Garvey’s ‘Address to the Second UNIA Convention’; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have A...
AINT I A WOMAN TOO (1993)

AINT I A WOMAN TOO (1993)

Written and directed by David Woods A dramatization of the lives and famous speeches of notable Black women in history including freedom fighter and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman, women’s rights advocate Sojourner Truth and Nova Scotia midwife, medicine...
TALK THAT TALK  (1994)

TALK THAT TALK  (1994)

Written and directed by David Woods  An ensemble performance consisting of skits, sermons, musical performance and dance that tell the story of the Black influence on English language.  The play reveals everyday words and phrases that originated in the Black community...
THE DETENTION  (1993)

THE DETENTION  (1993)

Written and directed by David Woods Four Black students are given a detention at Central High School, a fictional school in Halifax. Mrs. James, the supervising teacher assigns the students the task of reading the first 50 pages of a collection of ‘Black books’ she...
NOVA SCOTIA BLACK REALITY SONG  (1989)

NOVA SCOTIA BLACK REALITY SONG  (1989)

Written and directed by David Woods Voices’s signature performance piece. Five actors adopt ‘the Voices’ of selected parts of African Nova Scotian experience and take the audience on a journey through history, culture and contemporary life of African Nova Scotians....