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|Colette Robert’s new play about Black debutante culture opens off-Broadway at A.R.T./New York. ||Off-Broadway|A.R.T./New York,Aigner Mizzelle,Akyiaa Wilson,Caturah Brown,Cherrye J. Davis,Claire Fort,Colette Robert,Cristina Pitter,Jehan O. Young,Kayla Coleman,Monique St Cyr,Montria Walker,Portland Thomas,Starr Kirkland
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A radical theatrical production of Maya Angelou’s literary classic is opening to New York City audiences this weekend.
Elizabeth Hess: I was commissioned, originally. I had done a piece called Dust to Dust on systematic wartime rape. I performed it for the UN Conference on Gender Violence, and I was approached afterward by Elizabeth Scott Osbourne, a chapter president of UN Women USA, asking if I would do a new piece. I had just done a harrowing piece from the woman's point of view, so I wanted to do it from the male point of view if I was going to do it. Since #MeToo there has been a lot of discourse about "centering" the voices of women when we talk about issues like gender-based violence. You've taken the...