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- Title
In nicHi douglas's (pray), a Musical Communion of Ancestors and Dreamers.
- Authors
McEntee, Billy
- Abstract
Under douglas's direction, sorority is easily built; the set for this Ars Nova-National Black Theatre co-production is a Baptist church in which audience and performer share pew and prayer. In I (pray) i 's many vibrant hymns, common reverent words get a matrilineal makeover - "amen" turns into "again", and "father" becomes "freedom" - bringing focus less to Jesus and more to the community church enables. In Greenwich House's transformation from settlement house for the white to a church for Black folx, I (pray) i offers a present theatrical experience and dreams a future that can mirror it.
- Subjects
ANCESTORS; PRAYER; PRAYERS; HYMNS; BLACK people; MUSICALS; SOCIAL settlements
- Publication
Brooklyn Rail, 2023, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2157-2151
- Publication type
Article