News Release

‘Auction Block to Hip Hop’ performance Dec. 1

November 24, 2008

The hit off-Broadway play, “Auction Block to Hip Hop,” comes to Penn State Harrisburg’s Olmsted Auditorium for a single performance Monday, Dec. 1.

The 6 p.m. production is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6273.

From the creators of “Platanos and Collard Greens,” the play is set on the night a Hip Hop mogul, whose name is Set Fo’ Life! wins numerous awards for his album. On this night, he is visited by three ghosts.

The Spirit of the Ancestors takes him back to his own ancestors who are leading a slave revolt and his own mother and father and how they fell in love as Black Panthers in the 1960s. Then we see him as a college student, and educator, and then today as an artist who owns his own record company.

The play sees him move in another direction, deciding that rather than be the one to fight the system, he will sell out and join the system by becoming a Hip Hop producer who sells stereotypes of black women. He must then choose between redemption and damnation.