Affirmative (Re)Action
Affirmative (Re)Action is a critical theatre pod from a BIPOC Theatre Squad.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 7
In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter to voice her frustration with white women profiting off Black culture and stereotypes. When The Dis…
The Blacks by Jean Genet - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 6
Using the framework of a play within a play, it exposes racial prejudice and stereotypes while exploring black identity. As a troupe of black actors re-enact the trial and ensuing murder of a white w…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 4
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in Chicago in the 1920s…
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 3
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda is a play by American writer Ishmael Reed. It critiques the acclaimed historical musical Hamilton (2015) through a depiction of a fictionalized version of Hamilton'…
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 2
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a two-act tragedy set in the 1940s New York told through a montage of memories, dreams and arguments of th…
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 1
