One-Man Show comes to Jamaica
“The Doodo Boy”
Kingston, September 4 A one-man performance that is powerful, riveting, hilarious and mind-blowing…a life story that crosses and connects internationally with people from every possible background, portrayed by a Jamaican onstage will be in Jamaica this September. This is what Stefhen Bryan, a Jamaican artist and author has been showcasing to rave reviews Off Broadway and several theatres across the United States.
Stefhen “Doodu Boy” Bryan will visit Jamaica from September 21 to October 10 for a series of performances and interactions in Kingston, Ocho Rios and Montego Bay. He will also be visiting, and giving talks at two schools he attended in Jamaica, Camperdown High School and Franklyn Town Primary, and plans to address students at other schools as well. He will also select an appropriate charity.
“Doodu Boy – The Search for Love…from Cesspool to Sushiland” is an adult-themed autobiographical path of a young boy in Jamaica plagued by the ever present face of poverty in his life, the trauma, abuse and struggles he faces along with a much too early life experience of falling into a septic cesspool at a tender age. The meandering and interestingly woven tale takes him outside of Jamaica to unveil secrets of his past with a newly discovered father, which speedily unravels to a thread. Many attempts at his own life, twisted tales of survival and psychological rebirths in-between, Bryan arrives at UCLA and departs with a degree in Economics. He feels the need for new flavours in life and flies to Japan to teach English, but not before playing out many of the issues that have haunted him for close to a lifetime.
He becomes submerged in the culture and colourful life of Japan and wiles himself into the women and ways of the world. The ultimate resolution is found in a good wife and a willingness to face all the demons of the past head on, which leads to the ultimate completion of his journey. This profound, hysterical and highly dramatic performance occurs in a 95-minute viewing with very sparse props for a set, very little time to catch your breath between howling laughter and burning tears, and one man who tells the tale.
The current run of “Doodu Boy” will also be performed in Atlanta, Miami and Japan.
Stefhen Bryan is author of the critically acclaimed “Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: A Memoir of Exile and Excess in Japan” and the recently published novel “Only Begotten”, which is being adapted to film. He currently lives in Kobe and California with his wife.
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