Shia LaBeouf, Bobby Soto and Donte Johnson's theater company chronicles a single day at a drive-thru COVID-19 test site in South L.A.
in which he sat silently with visitors while wearing a paper bag with the same message on his head.
More than 200 people showed up to the first workshop. In January 2019, the company decided to accept only new members who were residents of South L.A, where Soto and Johnson grew up.“We wanted to give back,” Johnson says, “to create something in the neighborhood because there’s no opportunity here for this kind of thing, theater.”“The world wants to know what’s happening to these workers who are actually putting their lives on the line every day to test people,” he says.
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