Listen in as director Christopher-Rashee Stevenson and performers Malcolm B. Hines and Jonathan Schenk of {Flying} Dutchman, currently running at The Tank, discuss words as tools, “gender-blurring,” the multiple modes of being in a person, finding danger, finding a way to create room for conversation after the show, and how Amiri Baraka’s poetic language resonates in 2018.
“…it’s already uncomfortable language—we live in an uncomfortable society, and we’re not put on this planet to be comfortable…it’s about sexuality, it’s about human beings and what we go through…but especially the psyche of the black man, being in this world…”
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The Tank presents
{Flying} Dutchman
by Theatre of War
original text by Amiri Baraka
additional text from “Les Negres, Clownerie” by Jean Genet
directed by Christopher-Rashee Stevenson
thru February 25, 2018
The Tank
312 W. 36th Street, 1st Floor
Manhattan
tickets: $20 ($15 students), available via BrownPaperTickets
photos courtesy Theatre of War