Pecong (play)

Pecong
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.

Last updated April 20, 2025

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^[1]

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)^[2]

Publication

Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

External links

New York Times review of 1992 production

References

↑ Carter, Steve (1993). Pecong (First ed.). New York: Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-88145-107-X.
↑ "Lit Lounge". San Francisco, California: Hotel Metropolis. Retrieved December 5, 2009.

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[Carter-Pecong-1] Carter, Steve (1993). Pecong (First ed.). New York: Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-88145-107-X.

[Lit-Lounge-2] "Lit Lounge". San Francisco, California: Hotel Metropolis. Retrieved December 5, 2009.

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