Mark St. Germain Brings C.S. Lewis & Sigmund Freud Together by Barry David Horwitz When we enter the luscious, high-ceilinged, Victorian salon at the Berkeley City Club, we are plunged into Freud’s iconic study in London in 1939. The radio is blaring Hitler’s ugly speeches from Germany. Air-raid sirens reverberate as Nazi planes drop…
Jen Silverman Creates a Dark & Thrilling Brontë Mashup by Lynne Stevens Tell your friends about this standout twisted tale “from Behind the Basement Door.” I am always blown away by Theatre Lunatico’s high quality of performances in their tiny, postage stamp-sized theater. Be one of the lucky ones to get one of its…
“Love is stronger than Hate, Justice is stronger than Fear.” Jinho “Piper” Ferreira repeats the refrain as he tells a tale about “justice,” recounting the frightening crimes against Black Americans by the police that go unpunished.
Their names echo: Tamir Rice, 12-years old, shot, by a Cleveland patrolman while carrying a toy gun. Unarmed Michael Brown killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Trayvon Williams in Florida, drinking a soda. None broke any law.
But the black victim is demonized, not the police. Most notorious of all was the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmet Till. Till was brutally tortured and killed in Mississippi with two other Freedom Riders.
It pains us to repeat their names and recall our horror that the police went unpunished. Ferreira’s one man play unfolds how these travesties of justice affect Black men everywhere.
Lisa B. Thompson’s Choreopoem Honors Black Women’s Stories by Lynne Stevens Balancing between the reality and the joy of Black women’s lives, Lisa B. Thompson’s choreopoem “The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body” reminds us of the struggles Black women face every day. An omniscient voice recites the grim statistics on Black women’s…