Courageous Monologue—A Story of Redemption
Taken from the book Courageous by Corey Jay Johnson
Mon, Nov 12
7pm
Tickets $20
Produced by Two Gees Production in collaboration with CnT Productions LLC and MTL4Ever Entertainment
Courageous is a humanistic, urban, dramatic, one-person monologue play. In this story, a man from the streets of Baltimore talks openly about his life and reflects upon the pivotal moments that put him in his current situation as a recovering drug addict. He is honest and never holds anything back, as he talks about being arrested and being held in a jail cell at a young age. While reflecting on being in that jail cell, he talks freely about his life and being raised by a single mother and a family of proud hardworking Carolina folk who have a lot of Faith and Pride. You can tell that he loves his family dearly.
During this amazing and sometimes emotional monologue, Flubber remembers how he strayed away from the public-school system at an early age. Flubber reveals why he was attracted to the street life of robbing, stealing, and drug dealing. He talks about how he recruits a group of lifelong friends who take the journey with him as he becomes a notorious drug dealer and an infamous gangster who has a drug addiction.
After falling on hard times and hitting rock bottom, Flubber reveals that he has a life-threatening illness that will cause him to deal with life… on life’s terms. For HIM, the key to opening the gates of heaven comes from helping others overcome their own drug addiction. Flubber is transparent and brutally honest about his own life through this entire monologue. Yet he knows his ultimate demise is right around the corner.
All of these things he shares at a Narcotics Anonymous Anniversary Meeting with his family and many of his friends in attendance. As an audience member, you will feel as if you are there in that room with Flubber in 1990 at Saint Frances Church Hall, located in West Baltimore, as he tells his story in only the way that Flubber can tell it.
REVIEWS
“A riveting journey of triumph and tragedy. This is the story of one such being—caught in a web of struggle. Good people sometimes get caught in the same web of violent turmoil, too. This is a true-to-life, day-to-day account of just that. Corey J. Johnson takes you on a riveting journey, in style.” —Amazon Review
“I loved how Corey Jay Johnson captured the reality. The social issues are woven into the story well. Courageous features relevant themes like family, crime, social conflict, redemption, and a powerful empowering message of hope.” —Online Reviewer
“Very interested. How Flubber played last cards in his hand with HIV was legend on Westside corners. He was brave.” —David Simon (Twitter)
About Curtis McNeil
Curtis McNeil is an award-winning writer from Baltimore, Maryland. He is also an actor who started his theatrical career at Lake Clifton Eastern High School in Baltimore. Curtis has toured the continental USA and Europe, performing in several different genres of the Theatrical Experience. His first lead role was as Purlie, in the play Purlie by the late great Ozzie Davis. Since then, Curtis has performed in several projects around the globe playing roles like C.J. Memphis in A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller, to Duke Orsino in William Shakespeare’s, Twelfth Night. Curtis’ most notable role was as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Jeff Stetson’s The Meeting. More recently in 2018, Curtis was seen on stage in AIDA the musical as he portrayed Amonasro King of Nubia with the Artcentric Theater Company.
While serving in the US Army in 2009, Curtis won a distinguished award from the Roy W. Dean Screenwriters and Grants Competition. In 2010 Curtis McNeil with the help of Antonio Jackson established CnT Productions LLC, a small media arts company in Baltimore. Curtis’ most recent film project is Thick as Thieves—a short prequel film to the award-winning script XV, also written by Curtis McNeil and Antonio Jackson. Curtis has since been directing film and video for his production company. Curtis’ motto is “Let’s make magic!”
About Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson is an author, film director, screenwriter, and playwright from Baltimore, Maryland who is on the fast-track to becoming a prolific writer and storyteller. Corey has written and published four compelling books. One of his most popular books is Courageous. In writing Courageous, Corey felt that it was important to reveal to the world who his brother, Avon “Flubber” Johnson, was and how much he had impacted not only Corey's life, but the life of many other people who were looking for answers to the questions of life as a lost souls living in Baltimore City during the 70s and 80s—a time of open-air drug trade, violence, and corruption.
Corey has also written a three-part series titled P.I. Chronicles is about his life as a young Marine who grew up in Baltimore City. Through his writings, Corey takes his readers on a detailed journey into his stories, all while allowing room for the readers to use their own imagination and their own visions.
