Tag: The Public
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‘Barbecue’ Serves Up A Heaping Plate of Skepticism about Hollywood
Everyone has secrets that come out “when it’s just family”. Intertwining layers of deceit and secrecy fall by the wayside with one’s relatives, allowing identity politics to play out in a grand fashion. Accordingly, many secrets are employed and revealed by playwright Robert O’Hara (Bootycandy) in Barbecue, with a twisting narrative so unpredictable that it…
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Soul Comes From Struggle
“Have you ever heard / of an American prisoner / Hollerin’ out / for peace…”
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BUZZER: Gentrification of the mind and body
I suppressed the urge to twerk all the way to my seat. Volume up, the bass thumping. Professedly, I did bust a move or two (or three), although, looking around, I seemed to be one of only a few audience members in The Public’s Martinson Hall having a tough time keeping still, prior to curtain.…
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An Appropriated History of Appropriation as History
Is appropriation another act of radical revaluing?