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MultiStages will present SPEAKOUT: Protest Plays & More, a virtual festival of multicultural multidisciplinary commissioned works, live on June 21 and recorded from June 22 to 25. Conceived and curated by Artistic Director/activist Lorca Peress, the program is a 90-minute turntable of short plays, dance works and poetry exploring the essence of protest and activism in the modern period since the killing of George Floyd, the pandemic, the surge in hate crimes on Asian-Americans and more.
Since 1977, MultiStages has organized collaborations between playwrights and artists of other disciplines to develop multidisciplinary works. When George Floyd was killedand the BLM message exploded, veteran artists of MultiStages took to the streets. The streets were their theater, where the screams were real and the pain was palpable. In deciding what they could do to support this movement and to protest attacks on Asian Americans, Artistic Director/activist Lorca Peress, created the idea ....

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