Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater
Ti Jean and His Brothers
by Derek Walcott
Run Time
95 minutes with no intermission
Content Advisory
This production uses haze and flashing lights. There are depictions of colonialism, racism, sexism, death, and the devil.
Setting
Time: Forever and Always
Place: Surreal Caribbean mountain: at times within a forest, at times on a plantation
Program Note
Ti Jean and His Brothers is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Special Notes
The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. Learn more information about protecting artists
No flash photography permitted. Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Accessibility
The Berlind Theatre is an accessible venue with wheelchair and companion seating available. An assistive listening system is available and headphones can be requested from ushers. The April 18 performance will include open/live captioning (CART). Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information about our various locations.
Talkback
A talkback will follow the show on April 12, featuring a discussion between Fulbright Scholar and Lecturer in French & Italian Johnny Laforêt, project proposer Aleena Brown ’25, and actor and stage manager Mya Ramhi ’26.
Cast
Frog / Ensemble: Aleena Brown ’25*
Firefly: Mya Ramhi ’26
Bird / Ensemble: Miel Escamilla ’25*
Gros Jean / Ensemble: Walens Louis ’27
Mi-Jean / Ensemble: Alex Clarke ’28
Ti-Jean: Matthew Okechukwu ’27
Mother / Ensemble: Jhonelle Moore ’25
Bolom, The Goat: Jihan Khan ’25
Devil / Planter / Old Man: Oriana Nelson ’25*
Ensemble: Jeanley Boursiquot ’27
Musicians
TigerChunes / PU Steel Ensemble
Steel Pan: Aleigha Reynolds ’25, Liandro Feliz ’25, Corbin Mortimer ’27, Guadalupe Castaneda-Hernandez ’25
Production Team
Project Proposer: Aleena Brown ’25*
Director: abigail jean-baptiste ’18
Choreographer: Aleena Brown ’25*
Set Designers: abigail jean-baptiste ’18, Jane Cox
Costume Design: Keating Helfrich
Lighting Design: Alex Picoult ’26*
Sound Design: Stan Mathabane ’17
Dramaturg: Aleena Brown ’25*
Stage Manager: Mya Ramhi ’26
Assistant Stage Manager: Jeanley Boursiquot ’27
Run Crew: Evelyn Umezinwa ’26
Stitchers: Claire Beeli ’28, Isabel Yip ’25, Charlotte Young ’27, Raven Reid ’28; Wyatt Kim, Denise Boyle
Stage Management Mentor: Ash Baudelaire ’26*
Dialect coach: (J) Josh Moser
Music Collaborators: Aleigha Reynolds ’25, Oriana Nelson ’25*
*denotes a student minoring in the Program in Theater & Music Theater
Faculty Advisors
Jane Cox, Faculty Project Mentor
Tess James, Co-Producer
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information about ways you can engage with and support the Indigenous community on campus please visit the website of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAI), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater and Music Theater: Jane Cox
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The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. View a list of LCA Supporters
