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The Griot's Remedy

Pecan Tree Creative Solutions

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The Griot's Remedy takes dramatic readings of , fiction, short fiction and play excerpts and matches them with real life issue discussions through the lens of various life coaching and therapy understandings. Each episode, the host and panel will present a story, identify the themes (issues) the characters or pieces bring out and discuss them in a manner designed to bring some transforming insight to listeners' actual challenges or traumas.The Griot’s Remedy, produced by BookLoudly, a divisi ...
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The setting is the bedroom of 17-year-old Casey Redmond. It is the day of her high school graduation. Casey has not told her mom that she has decided to move as far away from her humble beginnings as possible. As the scene opens, her mother Mattie, is laying her cap and gown across the bed, and wiping away tears. She speaks to Casey who is off stag…
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Papa and his adult children, Whipple, Brother-Dear and Pammy are in a delicate balance of good storytelling vibes while holding back emotions and long held resentment. This excerpted piece is from a live performance by the Heritage Theatre Ensemble of Richmond, VA. Presented by: Shalandis Wheeler-Smith as Pammy Toney Q. Cobb as Papa Rakeem Laws as …
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The wonders of children and their imagination and what children observe and relate to comes to the forefront in this piece. The setting is a Southern yard, with the history of the home and family in various areas. The centerpiece of which is an old inoperable car. The car keeps the attention of 8-year-old Missy and her constant playmate Terry. PRES…
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Men in the barber shop, everything is up for discussion. The chat in this scene tackles baby mama drama, news headlines of the day, and offers varying wisdom in the midst. In this scene the men end up talking about their choice in women and how those choices affect their lives, vision and more. This clip is from a live staged reading by the Heritag…
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It is the height of the AIDS epidemic and the tragedy of it stumbles onto a woman's path. An afternoon grocery shopping trip reintroduces her to a once stunningly beautiful woman who has been ravaged by life. Tracy runs into an old neighborhood friend KC who forces her to deal with the reality of "there but by the grace of God go I." Zhawn Archer a…
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What happens with an estranged mother and daughter come together with one standing in resolution and the other hoping for reconciliation. Will either gain what they're hoping for. This excerpt of the play THE WAY MY MAMA LOVES ME, from a live performance in Miami, captures a volatile conversation that unfolds into powerful conversation with the pan…
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Luke pastors a popular church which demands a lot of his time, serving diligently with him is his wife, Vicki. Their smooth sailing life is erratically disturbed with Luke's ex-wife appearing from a time of psychiatric hospitalization and joins the church where she was once the first lady. In this scene, she sauntersinto that church, down the middl…
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Afternoon seductive trysts serve as the backdrop for Kay, a professional woman who has crossed the line, sharing not only a bed, but the sorrow that is her marriage with a client, Allen, a blue collar married man. Hidden away in a room-by-the-hour she is faced with her truth knocking on her door. CAST: Toni Tenaj as Kay Lamar Hodges as Allen Connec…
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Young, in love, full of doubts, this story unravels a woman’s emotion when she is faced with making a decision that could be joyful or traumatic, and she is weighing the decision heavily on the reality of an undefined relationship. This episode's piece is from the CD "Drama Exposed" by E. Claudette Freeman Connect with Renee at www.meditationalmome…
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In this theatre short, Paige, a young married woman, has run home to the grandparents – GammaReen and Charles - who helped raise her. She has done so because she believes her marriage is in trouble. Wisdom for Paige unfolds through her grandmother as she bakes and questions the nature of Paige's behavior and absence from her marriage. CAST: Regina …
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She thought her heart and life would be safe with him. She met him on campus, they shared common interests. he seemed the ideal man to marry. But the words I DO opened an invitation to disregard, disrespect, and physical abuse. The words "til death do us part" ring as a promise in her soul as she faces the demon she swore to love. [ Reading from th…
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A wooden front porch is the stage capturing this theatrical short story of Ann, the love that got away, and a heart so broken, it has not healed and seemingly cannot do so decades later. Ann wears her sorrow like a burning salve against her skin, constantly sharing it with other porch visitors Cliff and Chayonne, and telling it for the first time t…
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