Ferocious Love

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Ferocious Love is a spoken word-theatre experience by Mo Beasley that puts a whole new spin on the urban male coming of age story circa the late 1980s. Ferocious Love demystifies the strong black single mother who is often deified in the black community and the scary street hustlin’ uncle who is so often demonized and glorified for all the wrong reasons. These two characters are in a tug of war for the life of the central character, Junie, who is “gasping for guidance” in search of his manhood beyond “Ma’s” well-intentioned “Emotional Incest” and his Uncle Rueben’s “No Good N**** Ideologies’. The issues of class, dysfunctional families, and the ferocity of a mother’s love figure greatly into this journey for manhood in a post-Civil Rights/Black Power America.

About Mo Beasley:

This Boston Born/Miami Beach based “Universal Man” in the world of live theater and performing arts is an award-winning performance poet/published author/activist/arts educator/public speaker/stage manager for Broadway’s Bring In Da Noise/Bring In Da Funk, Off-Broadway’s Blue Man Group/founding producer of NYC’s long running neo-burlesque variety show UrbanErotika, and one of “50 Unsung New York Heroes” according to The New York Daily News, in 2006. All accomplished during his 20 year stint as a resident of Brooklyn, NY. In 2018, Mo took his love for live arts, activism, and education to South Florida as a Technical Director in Production for The Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts.

“With extraordinary experience and com­passion, Florida-based Howard Univer­sity graduate Mo Beasley ranks as one of the leading teaching artists in the country. A community-centered educator, lecturer, workshop facilitator and poet, his work specializes in sexuality, race, manhood and arts advocacy….”-Black Mask Magazine Spring 2021 Issue