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MAMA JUGGS by Rie Shontel

In this one-woman show, three women face late puberty, breast-feeding, old age--and breast cancer--in their Oakland Housing Project living room. Rie Shontel delivers an intimate view of these women through song and laughter.

Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU_WQndEReM

Set in the living room of an Oakland housing project, three generations of opinionated black women begin questioning their breasts. Together they cultivate a healing salve for their souls while confronting breast cancer, late puberty, breast-feeding, and old age. This one-woman show is woven together with original, a-capella breastfeeding songs.

Rie Shontel is a playwright, multi-medium artist, poet, and an award-winning radio journalist. An East Oakland native, she grew up in an area called "Funk Town" where late night storytelling often took place under streetlights, affording her an opportunity to live vicariously through her neighbors. Rie recently performed her one-woman show "Mama Juggs" in Oakland, California; Durham, North Carolina; and Raleigh, North Carolina. As Anita Shontel Woodley, she has a Harry Chapin Media Award and an Emmy for coverage on CNN of the events of 9/11. She's also written and produced a play called "A Great Dream Now a Nightmare" about African-American inner-city youth who ignore Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders sacrifices.

For more information visit rieshontel.blogspot.com.