odag swagg
ODAG Swagg
September 2013
In September, 2013, the second show, which audiences wildly applauded, was titled "ODAG Swagg" by the performers. This performance brought to life an anthology of poems, theatre monologues, and historical speeches, all chosen and memorized by the individual actors.
A list of the pieces performed follows:
| Title | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|
| "If" | Rudyard Kipling | 1910 |
| "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" | Frederick Douglass | July 5,1852 |
| "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" | Dylan Thomas | 1939 |
| Monologue from Joe Turner's Come and Gone | August Wilson | 1984 |
| "When the Smoke Clears" | Leonard Peltier | 1997 |
| Monologue from Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | 1897 |
| "Have Mercy on Me, My Soul" | Kahlil Gibran | 20th cent |
| "Auguries of Innocence" | William Blake | 1803 |
| Monologue from Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1607 |
| "Madhouse" | Calvin C. Hernton | 1987 |
| Monologue from The Big Funk | John Patrick Shanley | 1990 |
| "We Wear the Mask" | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1895 |
| "I'm Free" | Anonymous | unknown |
| "If We Must Die" | Claude McKay | 1919 |
| "On Forgetting" | John Peilmeier | 1989 |
| Monologue from Henry V | William Shakespeare | 1599 |
| Monologue from Malcom X | Thulani Davis | 1986 |
| "Misunderstood" | ODAG Member | 2013 |
This show was assisted by Oberlin College junior Environmental studies major, Isabella McKnight.