On a recent May night, on two stages in Washington, DC, two separate demigod kings suffered and grew wise. At Constellation Theater , Gilgamesh fluttered the sleeves of his royal raiment and ordered a boy jailed, a toe cut off each day and sent to his father. Gilgamesh is the tale of a cruel man-god transformed by grief. In verse and the first produced play written by Pultizer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, wit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM on June 13, 2013