Revivals in the Dark Panel Discussion: On Reviving Black Theater History

Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 6:30pm
Vanguard Lounge, Center for African American Studies, 343 High Street, Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

A panel discussion with CLASSIX, featuring A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, and Awoye Timpo. Moderated by Associate Professor of English, Theater, and African American Studies Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon.

This conversation features members of CLASSIX and will center on their work as a collective and their dedication to the staging of plays by writers such as Alice Childress, Theodore Ward, and Eulalie Spence, among others; and how they go about bringing these plays to life. In an industry so overdetermined by new plays and revivals that audiences are often already familiar with, how does one begin to imagine a play that an audience might have never seen before? How does one perform that? What work goes into thinking through revivals before one even arrives in a rehearsal room? The conversation will be moderated by Associate Professor of English, Theater, and African American Studies Rashid Z. Shaw McMahon, author of The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre (2020). To learn more about CLASSIX, to explore their evolving catalog of Black playwrights, and to listen to their podcast “(re)clamation,” please visit their website at www.theclassix.org.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life.

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