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Some Baltimore actors are turning tragedy into triumph in a new project focused on Maryland history.Baltimore City has become a stage, of sorts, for actors with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. The theater on Wednesday debuted what it calls The Monument Project, which features Black actors adding an artistic spin on Maryland history. I think we have to acknowledge the history as it was the real history, not the perceived history, but the real history, said Gerrad Taylor, the company s associate artistic director.Taylor said the history the plight of Black voices and people will shine in photos taken in November that feature actors wearing Shakespearean costume who posed atop the pedestals of what once were Confederate monuments. It s time for Black artists and Black people to take back their voice, take back their agency in these stories, in this history, in this culture, Taylor said. It is a part of us. We have to acknowledge it. We have to love it. We have to app
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