Pecong (play)

Pecong is a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.

Original production
Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center
 * Directed by Dennis Zacek
 * Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
 * Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
 * Set designer: James Dardenne
 * Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
 * Lighting designer: Robert Shook
 * Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
 * Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
 * Choreographer: TC Carson
 * Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein

Cast

 * Pat Bowie - Granny Root
 * Celeste Williams - Mediyah
 * Gary Yates - Cedric
 * Catherine Slade - Persis
 * Wandachristine - Faustina
 * Ernest Perry, Jr. - Creon Pandit
 * Diane White - Sweet Bella
 * Daniel Oreskes - Jason Allcock


 * Feleccia C. Boyd
 * Shanesia L. Davis
 * Lydia R. Gartin
 * Shawn Goodwin
 * Thomas W. Greene V
 * Alison Halstead
 * Dexter L. Warr
 * Christopher Williams

– Oppidans

Awards and nominations

 * 1990 Jeff Award, Best New Work
 * 1990 (Jeff Award), Willy Steele-Original Score
 * 1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)

Publication
Pecong is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.