‘Black and Blue’ Brings the Ferguson Moment Back Home
Ten months after the killing of Michael Brown, playwright Lee Patton Chiles conjures voices from the struggle on a nearby stage.
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Ten months after the killing of Michael Brown, playwright Lee Patton Chiles conjures voices from the struggle on a nearby stage.
This is clearly a teaching moment about race and justice in the U.S. Here’s a list of plays—new and old, all of them eerily timely—that speak to this essential American struggle.
Philip Boehm’s company debuts a new translation of Sophocles tragedy in a post-Ferguson St. Louis, and the resonances haven’t escaped him.