Dallas-based actor Akin Babatunde stars in comedy "Obituary" at Jubilee Theatre

  Stage, film and TV star Akin Babatunde

There is an old saying in the African-American community about three things sacred to black people that you just don't fool with: God, our mothers, and our funerals.

Obituary, an original work written by Dallas-based artist Akin Babatunde, takes an irreverent look at the most reverent spectacle of the human experience, that being death this Mon., Jun. 22 at 8 pm at Jubilee Theatre, located at 506 Main St. in Fort Worth, Texas.

Directed by Ed Smith and starring Babatunde, this one man show is about African-American funerals and the cultural divide that separates them from all the other ceremonies that acknowledge mortality.

Babatunde has appeared in the movies Night Vision, The Road to Galveston with Academy Award nominee Cicely Tyson, In The Name Of Love: A Texas Tragedy, and Caged Fear.

Theater companies Babatunde has worked with includes the Trinity Repertory Company, Alley Theatre in Houston, Florida Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Black Academy of Arts and Letters, and the La MaMa E.T.C. in New York.

Obituary is not Babatunde's first solo effect, with previous work including Of Ebony Embers, based on the Harlem Renaissance; Before the Second Set: A Visit With Satchmo; Zig-Zag, which played in Berlin, Germany in 1985; and Blind Lemon Blues, based on the famous blues singer.