About
Café
Millennium,
is a
poetic
play
about
9
urban
people
who
have
an
ongoing
struggle
with
their
conscious
and
the
personas
they
portray
in
the
café.
The
story
was
born
when
I
was
sixteen
years
old.
At
that
time,
I
couldn’t
wait
to
be twenty
and
I
wondered
what
it
would
be
like
in
the
year
2000.
Would
my
current
problems
be
non-existent,
or
would
the
computer
and
Internet
age
replace
work,
love,
and
human
emotions?
As
much
as I
wished
it
would,
I
knew
it
wouldn’t.
That’s
exactly
the
message
I
wanted
to
make
in
writing
the
play.
Here
we
are
in a
poetry
spot,
in
the
beginning
of
the
millennium,
and
the
denizens
are
still
dealing
with
the
same
relationship
hang-ups
that
have
been
going
on
for
centuries.
The
main
message
of
this
play
is
conveyed
through,
Chauncy,
the
MC,
who
is
the
guru
of
the
café,
and
the
ultimate
voice
of
the
future.
A
computer,
no
matter
how
advanced,
will
never
think
for
you,
feel
for
you,
nor
live
for
you.
Café
Millennium,
is a
poetic
play
about
9
urban
people
who
have
an
ongoing
struggle
with
their
conscious
and
the
personas
they
portray
in
the
café.
The
story
was
born
when
I
was
sixteen
years
old.
At
that
time,
I
couldn’t
wait
to
be twenty
and
I
wondered
what
it
would
be
like
in
the
year
2000.
Would
my
current
problems
be
non-existent,
or
would
the
computer
and
Internet
age
replace
work,
love,
and
human
emotions?
As
much
as I
wished
it
would,
I
knew
it
wouldn’t.
That’s
exactly
the
message
I
wanted
to
make
in
writing
the
play.
Here
we
are
in a
poetry
spot,
in
the
beginning
of
the
millennium,
and
the
denizens
are
still
dealing
with
the
same
relationship
hang-ups
that
have
been
going
on
for
centuries.
The
main
message
of
this
play
is
conveyed
through,
Chauncy,
the
MC,
who
is
the
guru
of
the
café,
and
the
ultimate
voice
of
the
future.
A
computer,
no
matter
how
advanced,
will
never
think
for
you,
feel
for
you,
nor
live
for
you.
In
getting
that
message
across,
I
went
against
almost
everything
I
learned
in
theatre
in
Performance
Arts
High.
I
was
tired
of
seeing
plays
that
I
couldn’t
relate
to,
that
I
couldn’t
be a
part
of
so, Café
Millennium
was
written
to
include
everyone
from
the
actors
on
stage
to
the
people
in
the
audience.
It
is a
new
type
of
theatre
that
not
only
incorporates
the
poetic
scene,
but
it
breaks
the
fourth
wall,
and
leaves
room
for
audience
interaction.
It
is
an
innovation
in
itself.
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Photo
Gallery
Cafe Millennium Forever!
Above ( l-r) is Ivan Ramirez
as the Music Man,
Ah-Keisha McCants
as Lauren, and Russell Hornsby
as Chauncy in the Second Production of
Cafe Millennium Performed in April of 2000
Above Is the Cafe Millennium Cast of August
2001 performing at Jimmy's Uptown
Reed R. McCants
Directing
the Gang