Three people in khakis and tan shirts stand in a row. The person in the middle appears to be white. The two on either side of him are Black. The person on the right has bloodstains on their shirt. Behind them we see a young Black person writing on a clipboard and a partial view of a young white person holding a brochure or book.

To break in their new North Lawndale space, Kezia Waters directs Theatre Y’s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2012 meta meditation on colonialism, genocide, and racial trauma. (The play received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater.) Structured as a rehearsal for a play about the massacre of the Herero people of Namibia by the […]

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