Until the Flood Video Production: Studiio Box DC
Just in time to join the vigorous national conversation about police killing Black people, Studio Theatre presents a nimble, penetrating production of Dael Orlandersmith’s
Until the Flood (★★★☆☆). Orlandersmith based the 2016 commission, described as “quasi-documentary theater,” on interviews she conducted with residents of Ferguson, Missouri, and surrounding areas of St. Louis County, after the 2014 death of teenager Michael Brown, shot by police officer Darren Wilson.
Reimagining Orlandersmith’s solo play as a chamber piece for three actors, Studio associate artistic director Reginald L. Douglas, making his company directorial debut, casts Felicia Curry, Ora Jones, and Billie Krishawn as eight composite characters who animate this insightful snapshot of a citizenry divided. It’s common to say, but utterly true, that beneath the surface there’s more that connects these people than they either realize or adm
Studio Theatre hopes to spark a conversation about race with play inspired by the shooting of Michael Brown
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Theatre Review: The Devil s Disciple presented by Washington Stage Guild
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Online festival highlights the powerful plays of undersung dramatist Adrienne Kennedy
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Dec. 17, 2020
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The final words of the play, uttered by a woman who has suffered unspeakable horror, struck me so powerfully that I had to replay them on my laptop several times. And that, she says, is the main source of the violent imagery in my work.