Playwright and director Miranda Haymon has, like numerous dramatists before her, dramatized this story"except that she has significantly repurposed it. Working with three African-American actors, she has used the tale as a taking-off point for an hour-long play focused on the experience of young black men in America. As the press release puts it, " 'In the Penal Colony' investigates the performance of power,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AM on July 20, 2019