Pecong (play)

Pecong
Written by	Steve Carter
Date premiered	January 9, 1990
Place premiered	Victory Gardens Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Original language	English
Subject	Retelling of the Medea story involving a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.
Genre	Drama
Setting	c.1890s; Fictional Caribbean island.

Pecong is a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.

Original production

• Directed by Dennis Zacek
• Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
• Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
• Set designer: James Dardenne
• Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
• Lighting designer: Robert Shook
• Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
• Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
• Choreographer: TC Carson
• Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein

Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center

Cast

• Pat Bowie - Granny Root
• Celeste Williams - Mediyah
• Gary Yates - Cedric
• Catherine Slade - Persis
• Wandachristine - Faustina
• Ernest Perry, Jr. - Creon Pandit
• Diane White - Sweet Bella
• Daniel Oreskes - Jason Allcock

• Feleccia C. Boyd
• Shanesia L. Davis
• Lydia R. Gartin
• Shawn Goodwin
• Thomas W. Greene V
• Alison Halstead
• Dexter L. Warr
• Christopher Williams

– Oppidans

Awards and nominations

• 1990 Jeff Award, Best New Work
• 1990 (Jeff Award), Willy Steele-Original Score
• 1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)

Publication

Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

External links

• New York Times review of 1992 production