Contemporary theater collective Poor Dog Group are on CAP UCLA’s 2017–2018 season schedule with their new work Group Therapy (January 2018). This week they bring their recent piece MURDER BALLAD 1938 to Baltimore for four nights.

“With a murky mix of desire, jealousy and emancipatory yearning, Poor Dog Group’s movement-based work gives forceful physical life to Jelly Roll Morton’s legendary 1938 recording. Originally performed in the brothels of New Orleans’ steamy Storyville district, Morton’s song revels in the nastiness of its heroine’s voice, whose feral physical energy lays claim to the violent impulses of a woman betrayed. MURDER BALLAD 1938 delves into the myth of female madness and racialized representations of sexuality.”*

POOR DOG GROUP – MURDER BALLAD 1938, Wednesday, August 2 through Saturday, August 5.

Every night at 8 pm. Additional Saturday matinee at 2 pm.

BBOX, MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART, 1601 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore.

*poordoggroup.org/murder-ballad-1938

MURDER BALLAD 1938. Image credit: Poor Dog Group.