Ctizen: An American Lyric
Written by Claudia Rankine
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
Directed by Elizabeth Carter
Monday, July 29 & Tuesday, July 30, 2019; doors at 6pm, performance at 7pm
Description
A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. Those did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just-say-that slurs that happen every day and enrage in the moment and later steep poisonously in the mind. And, of course, those larger incidents that become national or international firestorms. As Rankine writes, “This is how you are a citizen.”
Cast
Alexaendrai Bond, Citizen 1
Miia Ashley, Citizen 2
Kenny Scott, Citizen 3
Khary Moye, Citizen 4
Sarah McKereghan, Citizen 5
Paul Stout, Citizen 6
Crew
Elizabeth Carter, Director
Quinci Waller, Stage Manager
Dani Chaparro, Sound/Video Designer/M.A.D. Fellow
Stephanie Lapides, Lighting Designer/M.A.D. Fellow
Ada Chang, Production Manager/M.A.D. Fellow
Series Coordinators
Leigh Rondon-Davis
Michelle Talgarow
Series Sponsors
Mark Chaitkin & Cecilia Storr
Kathleen Kahn
Craig & Kathy Moody
Stan & Miriam Schiffman
BiBi Tiphane
Jon Wagner & Lynne Hollingsworth
