Candrice Jones’ ‘Flex’ debuts in New York

“Flex,” a play written by Dermott native Candrice Jones, is making its New York premiere at Lincoln Heart’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the place will probably be directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. The manufacturing has been in previews since June 23, however opening evening isn’t till Thursday, July 20, after which will probably be carried out for a month.

The plot of “Flex” revolves round 5 members of a late ’90s highschool women basketball workforce, whose goals of taking part in professionally are difficult by the “pressures of being younger, Black, and feminine in rural Arkansas,” together with the challenges of teenybopper being pregnant.

Earlier than arriving in New York, “Flex” was developed on the 2019 Bay Space Playwrights Competition, NNPN’s 2020 Nationwide Showcase of New Performs and the 2021 Arkansas New Play Competition. In 2022, it debuted at Fayetteville’s TheatreSquared and Atlanta, Georgia’s Theatrical Outfit, the place a local publication praised the characters for the way they arrive “to life with authenticity and depth.”

Q&As with the first forged members may be discovered here.

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