Prophetika | Hao Bai

"Conceptual yet viscerally powerful...“She [Charlotte Brathwaite]'s making theater for and with her generation, with visual and musical sensibility that is a stunningly multidimensional experience.”" –The Wall Street Journal

“Afrofuturism-inspired theatrical event with a message for today” – Huffington Post

“Along with telling several people to go see it, I’ve been saying Sun Ra lives! I felt soaked in an understanding of time that pulls from past and reaches through now into what could be.” – CultureBot

“In the Black prophetic tradition, music has been (and is) a vital component in the articulation of our freedom quests. Prophetika captures this truth completely. ...I’m sure I caught the holy spirit more than once as I swayed and clapped along with the show’s rhythms.” – BlackArts

PROMOTIONAL VIDEO CLIP

PERFORMANCE EXCERPT
"GAZE IN THE MIRROR"

PERFORMANCE EXCERPT
"WHAT DO THEY CALL ME?"

Part theatrical event, part visual art installation, part ritual ceremony, Prophetika: An Oratorio proposes a mythical cosmology of colliding reflections on freedom and a view of the current state of our world. Inspired by Harriet Tubman’s journey from enslavement to liberation; the cosmic philosophies and improvisational style of Sun Ra; Alice Coltrane’s consciousness rising devotional music and the mysterious invading black monoliths in Stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-fi film 2001: Space Odyssey.