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{{Infobox play
|  name       = Pecong
|  image      =
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|  writer     = [[Steve Carter (playwright)|Steve Carter]]
|  setting    = c.1890s; Fictional Caribbean island.
|  premiere   = January 9, 1990
|  place      = Victory Gardens Theatre<br>[[Chicago, Illinois]]
|  orig_lang  = English
|  genre      = Drama
|  subject    = Retelling of the [[Medea (play)|Medea story]] involving a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.
|  series     =
}}
'''''Pecong''''' is a 1990 play by American playwright [[Steve Carter (playwright)|Steve Carter]]. Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer.
==Original production==
*Directed by Dennis Zacek
*Produced by Victory Gardens Theatre
*Artistic Director: Dennis Zacek
*Set designer: James Dardenne
*Costume designer: Claudia Boddy
*Lighting designer: Robert Shook
*Sound designer/stage manager: Galen G. Ramsey
*Composer/percussionist: Willy Steele
*Choreographer: [[Terrence C. Carson|TC Carson]]
*Assistant director: Sandra Jean Verthein
Opened: January 9, 1990 at the Ruth Page Dance Center<ref name='Carter-Pecong'>{{cite book |title=Pecong |edition=First   |last=Carter|first=Steve |year=1993 |publisher= Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-88145-107-X }}</ref>
===Cast===
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* Pat Bowie - Granny Root
* Celeste Williams - Mediyah
* Gary Yates - Cedric
* Catherine Slade - Persis
* Wandachristine - Faustina
* Ernest Perry, Jr. - Creon Pandit
* Diane White - Sweet Bella
* Daniel Oreskes - Jason Allcock
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* Feleccia C. Boyd
* Shanesia L. Davis
* Lydia R. Gartin
* Shawn Goodwin
* Thomas W. Greene V
* Alison Halstead
* Dexter L. Warr
* Christopher Williams
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&ndash; Oppidans
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==Awards and nominations==
*1990 [[Jeff Award]], Best New Work
*1990 (Jeff Award), Willy Steele-Original Score
*1993 Bay Area Drama Critics Award, Best Choreography (Halifu Osumare)<ref name='Lit-Lounge'>
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|publisher= Hotel Metropolis
|location= [[San Francisco, California]]
|access-date=2009-12-05
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==Publication==
''Pecong'' is published by [[Broadway Play Publishing Inc.]]
==External links==
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/26/nyregion/theater-pecong-medea-s-tale-retold.html ''New York Times'' review of 1992 production]
==References==
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[[Category:1990 plays]]
[[Category:Plays by Steve Carter (playwright)]]
[[Category:Caribbean in fiction]]
[[Category:Plays set in North America]]
[[Category:African-American plays]]
[[Category:Plays based on Medea (Euripides play)]]
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