Featuring

The Canterbury Tales Remixed

SoHo Playhouse, Inc. is very proud to premiere The Canterbury Tales Remixed, written and performed by Baba Brinkman with music and turntablism by Mr. Simmonds and directed by SoHo Playhouse Artistic Director, Darren Lee Cole. The Canterbury Tales Remixed ran for three months from November 2011 until February 2012, and is now available for touring.

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Previous Shows

The Rap Guide to Evolution (New York – 2011)

The Rap Guide to Evolution is currently running off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, with turntablism by Mr. Simmonds, directed by Dodd Loomis (Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark), and produced by Sharon Levy of Dovetail Productions.

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Rapconteur

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010. Comedy hip-hop retellings of some of the world's great oral epics, featuring Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, with music by Mr. Simmonds.
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The Rap Guide To Human Nature

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010.
Comedy sequel to the Rap Guide to Evolution, featuring Mr. Simmonds on turntables, Human Nature zeros in on human behaviour and evolutionary psychology.
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THE RAP GUIDE TO EVOLUTION

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009. Winner of Scotsman Fringe First Award for Innovation and Outstanding New Writing.
A hip-hop exploration of modern evolutionary biology, written for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday in 2009.
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THE REBEL CELL

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008.
Co-written with MC Dizraeli, the Rebel Cell is a verse play set in England in the year 2013, a scorching political satire and lyrical debate between Che Guevara-style revolutionary politics and Nelson Mandela-style civil disobedience.

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THE RAP CANTERBURY TALES

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004.
Winner: Three Weeks Editor's Choice Award, Edinburgh 2007.
Combining virtuoso lyricism with physical theatre and dramatic storytelling, Baba Brinkman recreates Chaucer's best-loved Tales in an engaging, accessible, and often hilarious hip-hop style.
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