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| Antoy Grant, Abiola Abrams, Kimberly Howard. |
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| Abiola Abrams, Khuyki Bermudez & the fabulous Antoy Grant. |
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| Abiola Abrams, Antoy Grant. Bridget Kelso. |
FEEDBACK FROM NYU FRESHMAN, 2008
"I thoroughly enjoyed it! This play is sooo important
to my generation as a whole but especially women. The mythology, meets hip-hop, meets a sort of modern day shakespeare aspect
of it really drew me in. It was one of those things where a lot of parts I could really identify with but then adding this
whole realm of goddesses was really empowering and made me regard the content with a new divinity essentially. My favorite
parts were "New Girl Order", "Am I Pretty" "Mad Poet" "Gone" with "Groceries"
immediately following. Everything was just so prevalent and important!"
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Hip Hop Musical Play
60 minutes
CREATED BY
ABIOLA ABRAMS
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY
ABIOLA ABRAMS &
ANTOY GRANT
DIRECTED BY
DANIEL BANKS
GODDESS
CITY blends ritual, storytelling, songs & theatrics. This concert/ play explores the beauty myth, rap culture,
rape, female genital circumcision & sexuality.
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 GODDESS CITY is a hip hop poetry play that blends ritual,
story telling, songs & theatrics. This concert/ play explores the beauty myth, rap culture, rape, female genital circumcision
& sexuality. When Abiola was in her early 20s, she co-wrote the play with Antoy Grant, under the direction of Daniel Banks.
Goddess City premiered at The National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem after being developed at The
Present Company. The show was introduced by Ossie Davis at The Schomburg Center.
This innovative play was also
seen at: (select list) Amiri Baraka's Kimako's Blues People, The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, CBGB's Gallery, New York Theater
Workshop (as a reading), The International Fringe Festival, Museum of the City of New York, Danny Simmons' Corridor Gallery,
The Thalia Theater & on VH-1.
Abiola
also performed a poem from the play in Spike Lee's i/am/dot/com commercial that premiered during the Academy Awards.
A GODDESS ODYSSEY by Abiola
Abrams was taught in Ghana & in NYU's Undergraduate Drama department by Dr. Daniel Banks. The play is also be featured
in the critical anthology, "SAY WORD!," edited and with commentary by Dr. Daniel Banks.
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