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1 week ago

How Aleshea Harris Combined Influences from Across History to Create Her Tragic, Absurd Debut 'Is God Is'

When the playwright and now film director Aleshea Harris began writing the script for " Is God Is," she was on food stamps; subletting an apartment in North Hollywood; and working multiple jobs, including teaching at California Institute of Arts where she'd gotten her MFA in 2014 and moonlighting as an associate at David's Bridal. "I was so broke," Harris, now 44, said in a recent video interview with IndieWire.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

The Year's Most Exciting Revenge Thriller Remixes Greek Tragedy And 'Kill Bill'

A revenge thriller centers on two scarred sisters whose abusive father’s violence and their mother’s dying wish drive an ensemble of angry Black women through a surprising, confident narrative.
fromVulture
2 months ago

In Anna Ziegler's Antigone, the Heroine Meets Her Reader

From our millennia-later perspective, it's also remarkable that a culture that didn't count women as citizens - or even, truly, as full people; Aeschylus's Oresteia turns on the divine judgment that a mother isn't really a parent to her child but simply a vessel for the male's seed - created such staggering expressions of female wrath and righteousness on its stages.
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fromwww.amny.com
10 months ago

Review | Preach it on the pier: Gospel, Greek drama, and glorious views | amNewYork

The Gospel at Colonus is a revival of a musical oratorio that reimagines Oedipus at Colonus as a Black Pentecostal church service.
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