In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society." - from publisher's description. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV - everywhere, all the time. "Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition. The second you hear or see some ordinary movement, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating sounds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. There was also a pre-show event showcasing the poetry performances of Samiya Bashir’s class, "Poetry in and through Performance,” which drew on oral, lyrical, musical, dramaturgical, and (post)modern traditions, exploring approaches to poetry in performance.You take in things you don't want all the time. We held multiple post-show talkbacks to give audiences a space to talk together about their reactions after the performance. The stage adaptation stayed true to the text and examined the ways racism pervades daily life in America, from highly visible news accounts to the daily microaggressions that render certain citizens invisible in our culture. The performance engaged in a powerful and poetic way some of the micro and macro ways racism accumulates in the body. Poster by Peter Ksander Photos by Chelsea PetrakisĬitizen is an urgent, boundary-crossing work of prose, poetry, and visual imagery written by groundbreaking American poet, Claudia Rankine.
Performance Practice Citizen: An American Lyricīy Claudia Rankine, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachsĭirected by: Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly Assistant Director: India Hamilton Dramaturg: Samiya Bashir Stage Manager: Aoife Hough Sound Designer: Sharath Patel Costume Designer: Jenny Ampersand Costume Shop Manager: Alissa Warren Set Designer: Peter Ksander Lighting Designer: Peter Ksander Video Designer: Peter Ksander Scene Shop Manager: Rusty Tennant Community Outreach: Serena Offenbakerĭiver Studio Theatre, Reed College, Portland OR November 3-4 and 9-11 2017
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