Ambiance Theatre Company presented a performance of The Jazz Equation livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network howlround.tv on Saturday 27 March 2021 at 5:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 7:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 8:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
A young and gifted math teacher receives a special request to teach a teenage prodigy. As the pedagogy commences, the young teacher is confronted with an identity crisis, neglected grieving, and a history untold by his late mother. He seeks to find a melody of self-acceptance and crack the equation in which "X" equals a new bound future.
Cast:
Charla Marie Bailey as Janet
Dominique Jones as Gaven
Oyemen Ehikhamhen as Frida/Kiana
Richard "Doc" Woods reads stage directions
Directed by Eshay Brantley
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