Performance Research Workshop, Emily Sahakian (University of Georgia), “Staging Creolization: Renewing the Theatrical Activism of Edouard Glissant”
Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United StatesIn 1971, the Martinican writer Édouard Glissant created the avant-garde, educational play Histoire de nègre (Tale of Black Histories) with a group of Caribbean schoolteachers, and it toured throughout Martinique, reaching over 2,000 working-class spectators. In the following decades, however, the play and Glissant’s grass-roots theatrical activism would remain virtually untouched by critics and artists, […]
