BONUS! "Middle Passage" With Ilesa Duncan & Charles Johnson
The Ben Joravsky Show · Ben Joravsky LLC
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Show Notes
Author Charles Johnson and Ilesa Duncan, Artistic Director of Lifeline Theatre, talk about race, growing up in Evanston, slavery and the stage adaptation of Middle Passage, playing at the Lifeline, February 14 – April 5, 2020.
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed Illinois slave eking out a living in 1830 New Orleans, stows away aboard The Republic, an outbound rigger, to evade debtors enforcing marriage. But his clever escape backfires as the clipper turns out to be a slave ship bound for Africa. Calhoun must choose between a fanatical captain, a mutinous crew, and the Africans seeking escape. Building on a tradition of African American storytelling, this tale challenges perceptions of American identity using a Black aesthetic. We are at a critical historical moment in which issues such as racism, classism, poverty, and the meaning of freedom impact us all.
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