‘Momma Was A BAD Mutha… Shut Yo Mouth’

Every year, for the month of October, The VI Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council (DVSAC) has sponsored an annual theater production on community violence. “Momma Was A BAD Mutha… Shut Yo Mouth,” a compelling, provocative autobiographical one-woman show will take to the stage, once on St. Thomas and once on St. Croix. It is written and performed by award-winning actor, writer and producer, Fylicia “Fee” Renee King and directed by Sammie Wayne V. (for tickets, go to www.vidvsac.org)

It’s 1982 and a movin,’ groovin’ house party deep in the sticks of Omaha, Neb., is the backdrop of this universal story of a young girl’s untimely coming of age amidst her mother’s wild weekend house parties. Her story is about a girl/woman who has survived sexual abuse, witnessed domestic abuse and known the turbulence that comes with life when raised by a single mother who did the best she could with what she knew.