Chocolate Covered Ants presented by Restoration Stage at Bowie Playhouse

Just imagine For Colored Girls told from a male perspective and you begin to sense the ambition and scope of Chocolate Covered Ants, a dramatic exploration of what it means to be a black man today. As he did with "down low" culture in The Truth and the cost of celebrity in All That Glitters, playwright Steven A. Butler Jr. takes an important contemporary issue and strips away the caricatures and stereotypes to reveal the complicated and fiercely beautiful truth underneath. Told from the perspective of researcher Dr. Adrienne Taylor, Chocolate Covered Ants journeys into the mind of the African-American male and uncovers the joys, pains, truths and lies that define -- and unite -- us all. Courtney Baker-Oliver directs this important production from Restoration Stage.