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After Tragedy, an Indianapolis Theater Stages a Comeback
Bryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on.
Latrice Young in the premiere of “Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)” at the Fonseca Theater Company in Indianapolis.Credit.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
May 24, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS On a breezy, 80-degree evening, the sun still in the sky, the actor Chandra Lynch walked to the center of the Fonseca Theater Company’s outdoor stage-in-the-round. At her back was a semicircle of oversized blocks, each with printed words that together formed the sentence “Blackness iz not a monolith.”
Understand me completely : AshLee Baskin kicks off Art & Soul concerts Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star UP NEXT
AshLee Baskin s performance name, PsyWrn Simone, introduces the layers of her artistic ethos before she utters a note. Psy references the mind and wrn the singing wren bird. Pronounced siren, it offers the literal definition of an alarm that captures attention. In Greek mythology, it refers to the female creatures who lured sailors to their demise with song.
The singer doesn t want to lure anything to shipwreck except for stereotypes and destructive ideas. But she does have something to say, combining her art, activism and soul like Nina Simone, whom she greatly admires.