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Hip-hop and theater was a rare collaboration the world saw rise to mainstream stardom following the debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda s Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton in the summer of 2015 and the release of Spike Lee’s film Chi-Raq that following December.
Now six years later, could a Louisville-based production of hip-hop theater garner even more love for the genre while teaching the city’s youth about the classical forms of acting?
Louisville creative and teaching artist Morgan Younge thinks so as she prepares to roll out a three-week summer camp that will lead up to a performance of her original script “Hip Hop Herc” a hip-hop rendition of Hercules, a classic Greek tragedy.