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Gale Theatre Company and The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presented TWENTYEIGHT— a new play by Tyler English-Beckwith, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 11 August at 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
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Set to the hymns of Kanye West, TWENTYEIGHT is the story of six Black people separated from their homes in search of outer space. As they work to build their space craft, they live in constant fear of the sirens and what comes after the sirens are gone.
TWENTYEIGHT is inspired by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement research that concluded in 2012 a Black person was murdered in the United States of America every 28 hours by a police officer or vigilante. TWENTYEIGHT is an afro-futuristic look at police brutality and racial violence in the United States. TWENTYEIGHT asks us, who will survive in the America we are building? And how do we hang on to hope when fear is on the only constant?
Gale Theatre Company is dedicated to presenting new ensemble driven work, training actors, and community collaboration. We strive to make performance that is physically daring, aesthetically arresting, emotionally compelling, and ensemble driven. For more information visit galetheatre.org or katherinewilkinson.com
Praise for Gale Theatre
The “most astonishing and innovative pieces of theater to come along in Austin in quite a while.” W.K. (Broadway World, Jeff Davis)
“Gale Theatre Company’s play is everything modern theater should be” Salomé (CTX Live Theatre, Brian Scipione)
TWENTYEIGHT TEAM:
Playwright, Tyler English-Beckwith
Directors, Tyler English-Beckwith & Matrex Kilgore
Executive Producer, Katherine Wilkinson
Production Manager/Movement Coordinator/Asst. Director, Brianna Smith
Dramaturgy, Gethsemane Herron-Coward
Lighting Design, Rachel Atkinson
Scenic Design, Ann Marie Gordon
Technical Director, Zac Crofford
Stage Manager, Valerie Johnson
Asst. Stage Manager, Latoya Patterson
Graphic Design by Hakeem Adewumi
Produced by Gale Theatre & The VORTEX
Performance Ensemble:
Delanté Keys
Taji Senior-Gipson
Mae Rose Hill
Oktavea Williams
Kenah Benefield
Jeremy Rashad Brown
TWENTYEIGHT is funded in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, The Austin Awesome Foundation and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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