Check out kerryreid 's review of Congo Square's remount of What to Send Up When It Goes Down at Lookingglass Theatre 👇
). It’s back now in a short residency with Lookingglass Theatre, which means that this show, which is written explicitly for Black audiences, is onstage in the heart of the Gold Coast’s historically white and wealthy populace.
In one scene, a young woman is criticized by a friend for the way she walks, and told that it’s too provocative, too likely to attract unwanted attention in white neighborhoods. Yet to our eyes, there’s absolutely nothing unusual about it. Last week is also when NPR reported on the pressures facing Nataki Garrett, the Black artistic director at the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The headline managed to gloss over the fact that some of the “criticism” Garrett faces in her professional role has come in the form of death threats, so she now travels with a security detail.
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