Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down
Aleshea Harris
What to Send Up When It Goes Down
by Aleshea Harris
Synopsis
As lines between characters and actors – as well as observers and observed – blur, a dizzying series of vignettes builds to a climactic moment in which performance and reality collide, highlighting the absurdity of anti-Blackness in our society.
Through facilitation and dialogue we must decide how to cope, resist and move forward.
Watch playwright Aleshea Harris and director Whitney White discuss What to Send Up When it Goes Down in the June 2021 session of Concord Theatricals' Read More Plays Club .
Press Reviews
"If you’re a lover of theater, looking for signs of fresh and original and in-the-moment life on the American stage, you need to see What to Send Up."
— The New York Times
"This is theatre as art, exorcism, balm, and battle cry."
— The New Yorker
"Harris created something that is as much a church service as it is a production — a goad to action, a place for fellowship, a series of spiky parables that teach the congregation."
— Helen Shaw, New York Magazine
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| ONE / MADE W |
| TWO M |
| THREE W |
| FOUR W |
| FIVE / MAN / DRIVER M |
| SIX / MISS M |
| SEVEN M |
| EIGHT W |
Videos
RMPC: Aleshea Harris and Whitney White on WTSU
Publication
What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play written by Aleshea Harris and published by Samuel French .
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