🎭 Co-produced by Propthtr, India Nicole Burton's Panther Women is a history lesson via choreopoem about the women in the Black liberation movement. | ✍️ kerryreid
has already played at Cleveland Public Theatre and Indianapolis’s Phoenix Theatre as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world premiere program. But it’s hard to imagine a more apt setting for Burton’s choreopoem in celebration of the women in the Black Panther Party than the South Shore storefront now housing its Chicago premiere. A coproduction of Perceptions Theatre and NNPN member Prop Thtr, it’s an intimate and bare-bones staging—but lacks nothing in passion and insight.
Along the way, Burton’s script takes a sharp look at state-sanctioned violence against Black Americans, as well as the misogyny Panther women experienced both outside and inside the movement. The framing device is that they are the voices of the past, helping a contemporary woman out of isolating despair and into a sense of reconnection with herself and her community.
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