Popular Bay Area comedian, TV personality and stage actor Brian Copeland presents ‘Grandma & Me’ at The Marsh.
Brian Copeland says of his new show “Grandma & Me,” “What this play is exploring is what it truly means to be a parent.”Brian Copeland’s new solo show “Grandma & Me” is subtitled “An Ode to Single Parents,” and that’s a topic he knows well.
“In 2001, I went through a divorce and I ended up with primary custody of my three,” he recalls. “They were in first grade, fifth grade and seventh grade. Their mom had been doing all the back-to-school stuff and all of the day-to-day things, because I was doing ‘Mornings on 2’ at the time. And if I wasn’t doing that, I was on the road with Aretha Franklin or Smokey Robinson or somebody, or I was home sleeping. Then suddenly when I got primary custody, it was all on me.
“What I decided to do with this is to look at the lessons that I learned from what Grandma did during that first year that she had us and the first year that I had my three,” Copeland says. “Because the first year was the toughest year. When Grandma had us, we were all in shock and in horrible pain after losing our mother. And when I had my three, they were in all this pain from going through this divorce.
“Not a Genuine Black Man,” his 2004 piece about growing up in one of the first Black families in what was then the all-white suburb San Leandro, became the longest-running solo show in San Francisco history. He has since adapted it into a book and has been working with Rob Reiner to turn it into a TV show.
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