Events

El Hajj Malik chronicles the life of Malcolm X by sticking closely to the events in Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm X’s speeches. This classic of African American theatre was developed out of a group improvisation by students in the MFA program at Stanford, Spring 1967 and written by N. R. Davidson. Through the use of poetry, music, dancing and dramatic narration, El Hajj Malik moves from his prenatal roots in Omaha, Nebraska, through his days as a hoodlum, a prisoner, a convert to Islam, and a pilgrim to Mecca. It was his hajj that transformed his separatist philosophy into a Pan-African vision and earned him the name El Hajj Malik.