Citizen: a Staged Reading
by Claudia Rankine, adaptation by Steven Sachs
Claudia Rankine has called the book an endeavor to “pull the lyric back into its realities” and the work unmasks racism at its edges, utilizing an astute and successful blend of second person viewpoints with the speaker’s inward monolog. Rankine skillfully melds different verse and reportorial frames with contemporary interactive media to create this intense work. As “political poetry” Citizen is a searing exposure of the grotesqueness, the ghastliness of racism in American social and political life.
Cast
Steven Forns
Tia Kaufman
Jordan Nelson
Mark Oliver
Zimanie Solcum
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