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Award-winning BU playwright Kirsten Greenidge has refashioned Tony Lukas’ "Common Ground" for a 21st-century audience with theater director Melia Bensussen.
Our story is called “She Tells Seashells.” Versions of this tale come from the Zulu people of South Africa. Voices in this episode include Elle Borders, Amy Brentano, Rya Cox, Adele Donnelly, Hrishikesh Hirway, Ken Jackson, Igor Shimelonis, Sidney Sholley, Mike Smith, Alexia Trainor, and Joaquina Kalukango. Tony Award nominee Joaquina Kalukango has starred in many Broadway shows including The Color Purple and Lovecraft Country on HBO, and the movies One Night in Miami and Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia. This episode was adapted for Circle Round by Rebecca Sheir. It was edited by Amor...
As a pre-law political science major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Loy A. Webb had a strong feeling she was destined for a career in theater. âI was the only poli-sci major taking theater classes,â Webb said in a phone interview. âWhen I was applying to law school, I knew I also wanted to do theater.â Her âahaâ moment came one day during her student years at University of Illinoisâ John Marshall Law School in Webbâs native Chicago. She saw a production of August Wilsonâs âMa Raineyâs Black Bottom.â The experience wa...