CalArts School of Theater Presents: 'Black Like Me'

CalArts School of Theater Presents: 'Black Like Me'

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CalArts Campus

E400

Friday, April 19: 8 pm
Saturday, April 20: 2 pm
Saturday, April 20 - Saturday, April 27: 8 pm

 

BLACK LIKE ME
Based on the novel by: John Howard Griffin

Adapted and Directed by Monty Cole

Imagine a white man dyes his skin to become “black enough” to pass as African American. He writes a journal of his experiences “as a black man” in the South in 1959, and publishes it to great acclaim. This actually happened. 60 years later, we tackle this material from the inside, wrestling and responding in real time to the story, interrogating the difference between allyship and appropriation. The result is Black Like Me. Retold. Reexamined. Reclaimed.