"Between Two Knees, a dark yet hilarious take on the oppression of Native Americans, is at Yale Repertory Theatre through June 4. The play was created by the comedy troupe The 1491s, writers and actors of the hit FX show "Reservation Dogs."
Yale Repertory Theatre will conclude its 2022 season with Between Two Knees. The play, written by the intertribal sketch comedy troupe The 1491s and directed by Eric Ting, is presented with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Between Two Knees will be performed May 12–June 4 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street).
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Sheila Tousey and Rainbow Dickerson in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Manahatta,” which streams as part of the theater’s 2021 season. Photo: Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018
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Two centuries of colonization in ‘Manahatta’
The past isn’t past at all in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s “Manahatta.” “Indeed,” she writes in a note at the top of her script, the past and present “are one and the same.”
The show, whose 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production is streaming as an early entry in the theater’s digital and in-person hybrid season, takes place in both the 17th and 21st centuries.