From its Off-Broadway development and limited engagements at Theatre Row and American Theatre of Actors foster produced by the producers of Wicked through The Araca Project, The Tramaine Experience: An Urban Dramedy is an edgy interactive dramatic comedy solo performance experience set in a notorious inner-city Chicago housing project. This convivial yet slyly sobering one man show experience intends to highlight the humanity we all share beyond often overemphasized superficialities, putting both a cheerfully farcical and delicately heartbreaking lens on the environmental and experiential given circumstances, and the intimate, often voiceless, fragility that shape the lives of a community of inner-city ‘ghetto’ stereotypes hardwired into America’s pop-cultural framework.
Tramaine Montell Ford is a student at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
“An engaging theatrical experience. For once I felt like I was involved in an engaging theatrical experience as opposed to a spectator intruding on a malaise. Ford does an elegant job at illustrating how the problems of Cabrini Green were endemic throughout the country, representing larger urban decay happening all over the nation.” -Trish Vignola, Broadway World
” takes us on a wild and raw journey to the Cabrini Green Projects where he grew up in Chicago and takes us out with pride, introducing us to five unforgettable characters…” –New York Times
“With the demolition of Cabrini Green, ‘The Tramaine Experience‘ has unwittingly elevated Ford to the status of creator of urban mythology.” –Harlem World
Need to know
17+ for strong adult language
Read more
https://www.nytimes.com/theater/show/30796/The-Tramaine-Experience-An-Urban-Dramedy/overview
https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/BWW-Reviews-The-Tramaine-Experience-at-the-
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https://dailyorange.com/2012/03/q-a-with-stage-performer-su-alum-tramaine-ford/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Bq9QaeM84&list=PLF5B111048E8921E1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AVS7hONLg8&feature=youtu.be
Notable dates
17+ for strong adult language
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