Returning to ArtsEmerson as a fully realized staged production after
its sold-out 2017 workshop production, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of
the Sower brings together over 30 original musical anthems and
requiems drawn from 200 years of black music to adapt Octavia E.
Butler's sci-fi, Afrofuturist masterpiece for the stage. Parable of
the Sower tells the story of a young woman who lives in a
not-so-distant America where climate change has driven society to
violence and the brink of extinction. When she loses both family and
home, she ventures out into the unknown. What begins as a desperate
fight for survival leads to something much more profound: a startling
vision of human destiny that births the seeds of a new faith. With
music and lyrics composed by Toshi Reagon in collaboration with her
mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Parable of the Sower is a triumphant,
mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty.
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