Griot’s Corner Revue: Candle on the Porch at Gallery X

Oversoul Theatre Collective presents an afternoon of music, historical theater, and conversation on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Gallery X in New Bedford. Doors open at 3:30 p.m., and the program begins at 4 p.m. Admission is a suggested $10 donation.

The lineup opens with acoustic blues, soul, and Afrobeat by Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor and The ZYG 808. Following the concert, the collective introduces Boston Shadows, a one-act play written by Mwalim and directed by Naheem Garcia.

Set in 1850, after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, the play imagines a conversation between abolitionists Lewis Hayden (Ronald Pierre Louis) and Frederick Douglass (Brandon Scales). A discussion with the cast and creative team follows the performance.