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Community actors fighting the odds: West Oakland’s Playaz’ race toward opening night

By Dylan Bergeson | October 13, 2011 | 3
Bertha Holly (Cat Brooks) serves dinner while Bynum Walker (Adimu Madyun) gives Mattie Campbell (Niko Buchanan) advice.

With four days to opening, a cast juggling day jobs and family crises, and a budget with zero to spare, veteran West Oakland theatre director Ayodele “Wordslanger” Nzinga drove to her outdoor playhouse on a rainy afternoon and wondered if this, finally, was the production that wouldn’t make it.

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