Unscripted: Black Experience in the American Theatre
In the American theatre, Black artists navigate the “double-consciousness” described by W.E.B. Du Bois in ""The Souls of Black Folk,"" along with a necessary hybridity as artistic hyphenates: Actor/Producer, Educator/Director, Playwright/Performer, etc. Director of Learning and Creative Engagement Erica Denise moderates a conversation with Alonzo Richmond, Alphaeus Green, Sujotta Pace, Larry Muhammad, Lashondra Hood, Janelle Renee Dunn and Rush Trowell.
In the American theatre, Black artists navigate the “double-consciousness” described by W.E.B. Du Bois in ""The Souls of Black Folk,"" along with a necessary hybridity as artistic hyphenates: Actor/Producer, Educator/Director, Playwright/Performer, etc. Director of Learning and Creative Engagement Erica Denise moderates a conversation with Alonzo Richmond, Alphaeus Green, Sujotta Pace, Larry Muhammad, Lashondra Hood, Janelle Renee Dunn and Rush Trowell.
""It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."" — W.E.B. DuBois
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