Will Power was only somewhat aware of Boston’s recent progressive reawakening when he began developing his latest piece, Detroit Red. The playwright, an early pioneer of the hip-hop theatre genre, was interested in exploring a lesser-known period of Malcolm X’s life when he realized how perfectly suited the play and the city were to each other.
Read MoreA multimedia theater piece filters shadow puppets, cardboard cutouts, and good old-fashioned pantomime through live cameras to depict the alienating effects of a consumer culture gone terribly wrong.
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