Citizen
Subtitle: an American lyric
By: by Claudia Rankine, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
Contributors: Sachs, Stephen, adapter
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
ISBN-13: 9780822238379
Subjects: Racism; Drama; Race relations; American drama
Description: A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams, online, on TV -- everywhere, all the time. Those did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just-say-that slurs that happen every day and enrage in the moment and later steep poisonously in the mind. And, of course, those larger incidents that become national or international firestorms. As Rankine writes, "This is how you are a citizen." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Cast: 3 men, 3 women

"Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric was originally published as a collection of poetry and prose by Graywolf Press, [©2014.]"