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Sea Wall/A Life

Alex mentions his father was in the British Infantry from 1968-1984 stationed in Northern Ireland.

The Troubles, starting in 1969 and ending in 1998 are a horrific and bloody part of Northern Ireland’s history. The movement was started by a three day riot in 1969 called “Battle of Bogside” protesting discrimination against Catholics. After horrific events like “Bloody Sunday”, the fighting finally stopped in ‘98 with 3,600 dead and thousands more injured. 

#ireland #digiturgy #sea wall / a life #public theater #the public theater #theater #new york #jake gyllenhaal #Tom Sturridge #Simon Stephens #Nick Payne #Carrie Cracknell #new work #the troubles #history #war #irish #guns

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Marinda Anderson and Christopher Ryan Grant in the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”Credit: Richard Termine. 

“This works best, of course, with the scenes involving the staging of the play within the play by the inept amateur thespians known as the “rude mechanicals” — here including a barista, a bike courier and a hawker in a TodayTix vest. Christopher Ryan Grant appropriately chews the scenery and spits out the splinters as Bottom, a blustering contractor who can’t even pronounce the name of the character he’s meant to play.” 

#shakespeare #mobile unit #theater #theatre #digiturgy #nyc #tour #public theater

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Sea Wall/A Life

Polaroid cameras been around so long, they’re cool again. Though it was a highly advanced piece of technology in 1948, the Polaroid has become essentially an Instagram filter provided by Urban Outfitters. Whether you’ve been using them since you were a kid or you just got one, check out the science behind instantly capturing your memories.

#sea wall / a life #public #digiturgy #The Public Theater #poloriod #camera #photography #how it's made #how it works #film #instant film #theater

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#EmotionalCloset #NWF2015 #digiturgy #costumes #outfits #clothes

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For Colored Girls

These images are from a 2014 New York Public Library exhibition entitled: “i found god in myself: The 40th Anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls”

“Turning to the choreopoem not simply as an engaging work of text or drama but as a well of social, political and deeply personal issues affecting the lives of women of color, the exhibition [featured] 20 specially commissioned pieces in honor of each individual poem, additional non-commissioned artworks on display at satellite locations that address the work’s themes and archival material donated by Shange.“

 -NY Public Library

#new york public library #new york #art #exhibition #anniversary #ntozake #ntozake shange #for colored girls #choreopoem #digiturgy

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The Vagrant Trilogy

The title of the third part of The Vagrant Trilogy was in part inspired by Joni Mitchell’s “Urge For Going”. In it, Mitchell sings about change, displacement, and ambition, all of which are central themes of Mansour’s trilogy.

“I'll ply the fire with kindling now I'll pull the blankets up to my chin I'll lock the vagrant winter out and I'll bolt my wanderings in I'd like to call back summertime Have her stay for just another month or so

But she's got the urge for going So I guess she'll have to go She gets the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown All her empire's falling down”

- Joni Mitchell

#joni mitchell #song lyrics #the vagrant trilogy #urge for going #digiturgy #mona mansour #video

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The Vagrant Trilogy

Barghouti, a celebrated Palestinian poet, won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for this account of his return to Ramallah in 1996 after a 30-year absence.

Mona Mansour, writer of The Vagrant Trilogy, writes that the book is “a beautiful evocation of, when he’s crossing the bridge, all these feelings that come back to him. I read it because I was trying to research what it is like to be Palestinian, post-1948, pre-1967″

#mourid barghouti #mona mansour #ramallah #I saw ramallah #digiturgy #the vagrant trilogy #refugee #book #naguib Mahfouz medal #literature #inspiration #context

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For Colored Girls 

Ntozake Shange, author of For Colored Girls, passed away in October of 2018. This New York Times obituary celebrates her life, her work, and her legacy. The play first premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 1976.

#obituary #ntozake shange #for colored girls #public theater #digiturgy #new York times

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Mojada

The challenges that Medea and her family face as undocumented immigrants in Mojada, are widespread in today’s immigrant community. In this article, 13 Artists share their work in response to the subject of immigration.

One of the artists, Patrick Martinez, writes that, “Empathy is necessary when dealing with issues surrounding immigration and the unfortunate types of circumstances that can force family members to leave their homeland. Immigration controversies often prevent us, as a nation, from examining uncomfortable social and cultural truths. Rather than using immigrants as scapegoats for issues related to crime or unemployment, we must call for social reform. “

#mojada #mojado #luis alfaro #digiturgy #New York Times #art #immigration #alfredo jaar #raul de nieves #hayv kahraman

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Soft Power

Hillary Clinton is an avid theater goer, which makes it all the more brave and intriguing for writers to channel her into their writing. Lucas Hnath write her as a character in his play, Hillary and Clinton, and Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang writer her as a character in Soft Power. 

#lucas hnath #Jeanine tesori #Hillary clinton #Hillary and clinton #david henry hwang #soft power #election #broadway #digiturgy

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The Vagrant Trilogy

Living as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon is particularly difficult, as they are denied some of the most basic rights like job opportunities.

#Palestinian refugees #jobs #lebanon #the vagrant trilogy #mona mansour #digiturgy

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Soft Power

What does the title of Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang’s musical mean? Shashi Tharoor talks about the significance of the term “Soft Power” in the context of India.

“Soft Power is something that really emerges partly because of governments, but party despite governments.”

- Sashi Tharoor

#soft power #TED #sashi tharoor #Jeanine tesori #david henry hwang #musical #talk #government #culture #digiturgy

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The Vagrant Trilogy

Mona Mansour talks about her father’s experience leaving Lebanon and how it inspired The Vagrant Trilogy. 

“[The three plays] will go by quickly, there is going to be an interval between each play. It will feel like a three act play,” answered Mansour. “There are many white males who write plays that take four to five hours, so as a woman I feel like ‘Yeah, this is taking some time; that is OK.’”

#mona mansour #the vagrant trilogy #refugee #inspiration #lebanon #play #digiturgy #palestine

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Mojada

While New York City is considered the “melting pot” of the United States, Jackson Heights, Queens is the melting pot of New York City. There are 167 different languages spoken there! It also happens to be where Luis Alfaro’s Mojada takes place. The play illustrates what it means to be an immigrant in one of the most diverse places on earth.

#corona #Jackson heights #queens #The New York Times #mojada #luis alfaro #digiturgy #melting pot #diversity

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The Visitor

In The Visitor, Tarek teaches Walter how to play the drums. In this video, a young boy plays the Doumbek, or Goblet Drum, which is native to Egypt and many other regions in the Middle East.

#drums #boy #kid #doumbek #goblet drum #video #the visitor #music #beat #rhythm #digiturgy