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also, for interest/reference, the titles of the individual mini plays in the mysteries (and playwrights), according to the show's program
Act I - The Fall
Song of the Trimorph (Lucifer's Lament) - Dael Orlandersmith
Falling for You - Liz Duffy Adams
The Eighth Day (Creation Hymn) - Jason Williamson
God's Rules - Johnna Adams
A Worm Walks into a Garden, or The Fall of Man - Madeleine George
Right of Return - Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
Cain and Abel - David Henry Hwang
Build It - Trista Baldwin
The Flood - Mallery Avidon
Fruitful and Begettin' - Nick Jones
Bright New Devil - Matthew Stephen Smith
The Moses Story - Ann Marie Healy
The Prophecy - CollaborationTown
The Annunciation - Jordan Harrison
Joseph's Troubles About Mary - Kate Gersten
The Shepherds - Kimber Lee
King of Kings - Kate Moira Ryan
The Slaughter of the Innocents - Chris Dimond
The Flight into Egypt - Kenneth Lin
Act II - The Sacrifice
Christ with the PhDs - Erin Courtney
Jesus Grows Up Fast - CollaborationTown
New Periods of Pain Part I - Craig Lucas
Something in the Water - A. Rey Pamatmat
Transfiguration - Billy Porter/Kirsten Greenidge
The Woman Taken in Adultery - Max Posner
The Raising of Lazarus - Amy Freed
Jesus Enters Jerusalem - Gabriel Jason Dean
Turning the Tables - CollaborationTown
The Conspiracy - Yussef El Guindi
The Last Supper - Jeff Whitty
The Garden of Tears and Kisses - José Rivera
The Denial of Peter - Bess Wohl
Christ Before Herod - Qui Nguyen
Judgment? - Marc Acito
The Remorse - Sevan K. Greene
The Road to Calvary - Jenny Schwartz
Act III - The Kingdom
New Periods of Pain Part II - Craig Lucas
The Death of Christ - Don Nguyen
The Harrowing of Hell - Lucas Hnath
Resurrection - Bill Cain
The Next Supper - Lloyd Suh
The Appearance - Ellen McLaughlin
Thomas Doubting (or, Doubting Thomas Doubts His Doubt) - Jordan Seavey
The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene - Meghan Kennedy
Pentecost - Sean Graney
Walking Away from the Mirror and Forgetting What You Looked Like - Eisa Davis
The Death of Mary - Lillian Groag
The Assumption of Mary - Najla Said
The Coronation - Laura Marks
The Last Judgment - Michael Mitnick
Sermon of The Senses - José Rivera
#some titles from rehearsal were changed &/or were always working titles...e.g. where are The Temptation or The Crucifixion?#the latter would've apparently been [new periods of pain part ii] given that The Death Of Christ was already referred to as a separate and#subsequent scene. is the temptation [new periods of pain part i]? not all the room in the world for post nativity pre passion events#the mysteries#lucifer the mysteries#lucifer mysteries#gospel48
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The flaneur is notable in that it is a figure that is traditionally white and male. Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega attempted to catalog black women flaneurs in her critical essay “The Black Flâneuse: Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘In the Mecca.’” She notes that the flaneur was first defined by Walter Benjamin in his study of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry. In Ortega’s paraphrase, for Benjamin the flaneur is someone who “observes the city by strolling through it, allowing the crowd to direct his movement and attention. He becomes part of the crowd, going unnoticed by others, and he is, therefore, allowed privileged access to exclusive areas (e.g., the red-light district) where he witnesses urban life (and crime) without implication or obligation” (emphasis mine). The flaneur assumes this privileged anonymity implicitly because of his whiteness and maleness, and he is able to observe the material conditions of urban inequality because of the implied objectivity of his race and gender status. He observes the city’s underbelly but, notably, he is not a member of that community and so has no obligation to help, change, or even explicitly interact with what he sees.
Sex in the City: The Black Female Flaneur in Raven Leilani’s Luster by Kaitlyn Greenidge
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The Rep Announces First Season Under New Artistic Director for 2019-2020
#Angels in America#Bekah Brunstetter#Charles Ludlam#Christopher Baker#David Murrell#Dreaming Zenzile#Feeding Beatrice#Gordon Farrell#Hana S. Sharif#Jane Austen#Jeremy Kareken#Kirsten Greenidge#Larissa FastHorse#Luis Alfaro#Miriam Makeba#Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles#Pride and Prejudice#Somi#The Cake#The Lifespan of a Fact#The Mystery of Irma Vep#The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis#The Thanksgiving Play#Tony Kushner
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🧠📚 CREATOR Q&A 📚🧠
✧ Q: What are your biggest [playwriting] influences?
✧ A: “My biggest influences are my experience as a Black woman and mother and the fact that for too long the narrative of those who are usually marginalized, silenced, or ignored (BIPOC, the LGBTQIA community, women, etc.) has been crafted and told by others. There is a short allegory that I find striking in relation to this.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦?’
‘𝘠𝘦𝘴,’ 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯, ‘𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴𝘬?’
‘𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭,’ 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘺, ‘𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘚𝘰, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦?’
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.’
Moving beyond what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls ‘The Danger of the Single Story’ is crucial.
In terms of writing, I am definitely influenced by August Wilson, whose plays celebrated the everyday experiences of Black people and were all set in Pittsburgh, where he grew up. I am from Aliquippa, a small city just north of Pittsburgh, so Wilson has long been on my radar. Other playwrights I consider to be influential are Lynn Nottage, Dominique Morrisseau, Kirsten Greenidge, Henrik Ibsen, and Shakespeare.”
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Stay tuned for updates on Lydia’s play, 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘢, and hear more about her writing process in our #BriefBlackCandles interview series! (Part Two out now!)
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Happy reading! 🖤
#black poets on tumblr#poets corner#howiwrite#theater#theatrelife#playwright#black playwrights#inspiration#finding inspiration#shakespeare#singlestory#the danger of the single story#pittsburgh#chimamanda ngozi adichie#lgbtqia art#queer art#mom life#blerdmagic#blerdsunite#ask the author#asktheauthor#authorcommunity
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Congrats on your masters! As fellow theatre nerd, I was wondering what are some of your favorite plays and theatre productions you have seen. I am starting my MFA in the fall for playwriting/scriptwriting and am always down to talk about plays since that is basically all I have read for the past four years. (I am a total Ibsen slut and actually did my senior project on a modern adaptation of Hedda Gabler)
Thank you! Congrats on the MFA!
So, I will admit that I have not read as many plays as some of my colleagues. I was an English Major in undergrad, and my English program really did not have an emphasis on drama. But these are some of my faves:
Productions:
The single best theatrical experience I’ve ever had was the 2019 Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theater. I have never seen such a wonderful production of that play.
I also saw Small Island at the National Theater last summer and that was also phenomenal. I would recommend picking up the play (or the novel it’s based on) if you can.
I also really enjoyed the Globe Theater’s Henry IV 1&2 and Henry V from last summer, as well as their Merry Wives (which will be streamed on youtube in June!)
I also saw a production of The Wolves at the STL Rep Theater last year and that was beautiful. The play isn’t a great read, but it works so well on stage. If we can ever go to the theater again, and you have the chance to see a production of that, I would 100% recommend it.
I also saw Mojada: A Medea in Los Angelas by Luis Alfaro at the Rep this year. (Heres the trailer for the original production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This trailer gives more info on the play). I wasn’t crazy about the staging in that production (The Rep likes to ignore that it has a thrust stage), but the script and acting for the production were amazing. I think I’ve thought about that play once a day since I saw it. It was an amazing adaptation of Euripides’s Medea.
Plays
My top Shakespeare Plays are: 1) Hamlet, 2) Richard III, 3) 1 Henry IV 4) A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4) Romeo and Juliet. Honorable mention to Much Ado About Nothing.
I also love Jean Racine’s Phedra. It’s pretty much a perfect Neo-Classical drama.
Onto some of my favorite more modern/contemporary plays:
I love Wittenberg by David Davalos.
‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (technically this is a choreo-poem) (Wash U did a production of this play last Fall, and it was beautiful)
Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge
I also have a love/hate relationship with Angles in America
And I have an unapologetic soft spot for Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie
Musical theater is a totally other ballgame. I love musical theater with my whole heart, so let me know if you’d like those opinions as well!
#thanks for asking!#give it about another week and ill be begging people to come talk to me about shakespeare#things-welost-in-the-fiya
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UMass Theater Presents "Baltimore"
UMass Theater Presents “Baltimore”
UMass Theater presents Baltimore, a play to spark a timely conversation
BALTIMORE
by Kirsten Greenidge
directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden
Performance Details
Oct. 10, 11, 16, 17, 19 at 7:30
Oct. 12 & 19 at 2
School matinee: Oct. 16 at 10
Oct. 18 at 4
Rand Theater
This production runs 90 minutes, followed immediately by a 30-minute discussion
Tickets
$5 students and seniors, $15 general admission. Call…
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#Amherst MA#Baltimore#Josh Glenn-Kayden#Kirsten Greenidge#Rand Theater#UMass#UMass Amherst#UMass FAC#UMass Fine Arts Center#UMass Theater
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SHOW REVIEW
BALTIMORE (10/30/2021)
- By Kirsten Greenidge
- Directed by Timothy Douglas
general plot and play details: https://www.playscripts.com/play/2862
Damn.... wow. This play is something that EVERYONE needs to see, read, smell, digest, take in. The actors portrayal of many of the characters in this play were truly remarkable to watch, not only was it amazing to see them perform but amazing to hear from them after the show about what rehearsals looked like or what the process looked like, especially at a PWI.
They said that in the rehearsal process, they could only think about Emerson when it came to what school this could take place at, but soon realized that this was happening at many college campuses across America.
There was also a great amount of shock factor I think, particularly in a scene near the end of the play where everyone, sort of everyone, says the n word (thinking specifically about how the white male character says it, after it comes to light that he laughed at the drawing placed on one of the girls doors)
This will definitely be a play that we talk about in my classroom, Future Drama Teacher (◟ᅇ)◜
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Hi! I'm trying to find a play to do for my senior project, and I'm looking for something comedic and more contemporary and mostly girls, but I've been through every compilation of human plays and nothing seems to be sticking out. Do you have any recommendations?
(I think you meant Humana plays, but I like the idea of branching into robot plays.)
Anyway. If Men on Boats by Jacklyn Backhaus is available, do that. Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidgeis very funny, and Precious Little by Madeleine Georgemay have a smaller cast than what you need but is delightful (and someone gets to play a monkey). And also Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan is about fashion and body image and is still bonkers funny.
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With the upcoming one year anniversary of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting and as the Co-Dramaturg of UNC Charlotte's production of Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge, I wanted to bring a well-needed conversation to campus. Collaborating with multiple organizations and student leaders, we invite students and the local community to "Of Color and On Campus" on September 19th from 5-6pm. This panel will be hosted by UNC Charlotte's Department of Theatre in the Belk Theater. (at Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts)
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The hard work of the young people from @scfreedomproject shines in their performance of Kirsten Greenidge’s “Baltimore” (at The COFO Civil Rights Education Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZPEOghoHg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1alxll1gjlv0
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Summer 2017 Reading List
There is no guarantee that I am going to make it through all of these books. But I’m taking this summer to make a dent in the ever-growing reading list.
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
Drown by Junot Díaz
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
HorrorStor by Grady Hendrix
ODY-C: Cycle One by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Red by John Logan
can’t and won’t by Lydia Davis
Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet
Widow Basquiat: A Love Story by Jennifer Clement
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
‘Art’ by Yasmina Reza
Paper Girls: Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
Umami by Laia Jufresa
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Loner by Teddy Wayne
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helem Oyeyemi
Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
California by Edan Lepucki
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge
The Flick by Annie Baker
Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison
teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsan Shire
Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder
The BreakBeat Poets edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
The Tenderland: A Family Love Story by Kathleen Finneran
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#स्पोर्ट्सक्रंच: क्रिकेटर्स जिन्होंने बनाये हैं एकदिवसीय क्रिकेट में #सबसेतेज३०००रन #ICC #ODI
क्रिकेट और बल्लेबाज़- रिकॉर्ड तो बनते टूटते रहते हैं। इस खेल की यही रीत है कि क्रिकेटर्स रिकॉर्ड बनाते हैं और फिर उनके बाद कोई और रिकॉर्ड के आगे निकल जाता है। बल्लेबाज़ी पिछले दौरों से अब के दौर में आसान मानी जाती रही है कभी ये कहके कि गेंदबाज़ी का पैनापन कम हुआ है तो कभी के कहके कि पिच बल्लेबाज़ी के माफ़िक़ बनाये जा रहे हैं। जो भी हो, रिकॉर्ड बनाना आसान तो नहीं है वो भी एक ऐसे खेल में जिसमें…
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‘Common Ground’ Illuminated Boston. Now It’s Coming to the Stage.
‘Common Ground’ Illuminated Boston. Now It’s Coming to the Stage.
“Widespread Floor,” J. Anthony Lukas’s Pulitzer-winning masterpiece about Boston’s turbulent try and desegregate its faculties by way of court-ordered busing, is inspiring a stage play.
The Huntington Theater Company in Boston plans to current the drama, referred to as “Widespread Floor Revisited,” subsequent winter, with performances beginning in January. The variation is by Kirsten Greenidgea…
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2285 - Kirsten Greenidge https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5DEM9HMcG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9byhxzcsa1fb
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UMass Theater Presents "Baltimore" - A Play to Spark a Timely Conversation
UMass Theater Presents “Baltimore” – A Play to Spark a Timely Conversation
Baltimore, a new work by Kirsten Greenidge, examines what happens on a college campus in the aftermath of a racist incident. UMass Theater hopes audiences of both an abridged presentation of the play this spring, as well as those who see the fully-mounted production in the fall, will find that the play sparks productive conversations about difficult topics.
April 17-27, the play will be presented…
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#Amherst MA#Baltimore#Josh Glenn-Kayden#Kirsten Greenidge#New Africa House#UMass Amherst#UMass Theater
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