February 9, 2016 | Theatre,
Why Theatre? Why Melodrama?
I so admire An Octoroon because it directly questions theatre’s relevance inside the very dialogue of the characters while us giving us a fresh and challenging take on the history...
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February 8, 2016 | Theatre,
Why Pre-teen Me is Ready for the Wong Kids
When I was a child I hated children’s theatre. I know that’s not really the strongest lead to use for a blog post promoting a TYA (theatre for young audiences)...
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February 8, 2016 | Theatre,
Why I’m Going to See An Octoroon
Why do we go to the theatre? As a student heaping on loans to study an art and way of storytelling started back with the Greeks, this is a questions...
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February 8, 2016 | Notes From Leadership,
A Note from Executive Director David C. Howse
Levitating rocks, Farkian frogs, flying dragons, space travel? ArtsEmerson is no stranger to adventure, but who could have imagined all this? If your home is like mine, you know that...
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February 8, 2016 | Theatre,
A Recipe for Stories Both Kids & Adults Will Love
As my 21 year old self sat in a movie theater in Harlem at 2pm on a Tuesday alternately sobbing and laughing, I realized my only other film-watching companions...
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February 1, 2016 | Theatre,
What is an Octoroon?
Read more blog articles associated with An Octoroon here! By 1860, approximately ten percent of enslaved people in the American South had at least one white ancestor, often as a...
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January 29, 2016 | What Did You Think?,
What Did You Think of An Octoroon
– In the program interview, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins says, “Melodrama is always about good and evil,” and suggests that we find comfort in this familiar narrative device. How...
Read MoreJanuary 28, 2016 | Theatre,
Filter’s Twelfth Night by Paul Taylor
When the Royal Shakespeare Company first commissioned Filter to make a creative response to Twelfth Night as a feature of the great Complete Works project that unfolded in Stratford in 2006–2007, it...
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