Okwui Okpokwasili

Bronx Gothic is a solo dance-theatre piece written and performed by Okwui Okpokwasili. The work reveals a secret world of two adolescent girls growing up in the Bronx in the 1980s through their exchange of hand-passed notes of both shared and betrayed secrets. Drawing inspiration from Victorian-era novels and West African griot-storytelling, Bronx Gothic weaves a darkly powerful recollection of sexual awakening and pubescence, and the humor, the love, the strangeness - even the terror -that accompany it.