A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race)-Featuring Playwright Nilaja Sun
Date and Time
Mar 5, 2017 4:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Mar 5, 2017 4:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic:
One-Woman Dynamo and Obie Award Winner Nilaja Sun performs a snippet of her play PIKE ST. A discussion will follow.
Join us for an intimate preview of PIKE ST., written by playwright and performer Nilaja Sun, and get a sneak-peek at scenes, meet the artist, and dig into the questions raised by the show over dinner.
From the one-woman dynamo who brought the Obie Award-winning No Child… to Woolly in 2008 comes a rich slice of Puerto Rican immigrant life that “glows with humor” (New York Times). If you’ve ever seen Nilaja Sun’s virtuosic performance style, you’ll want to experience it again…and if you haven’t, you must not miss the chance to be transported to Pike St.
On the Lower East Side, a mother works hard to keep the electricity flowing for her daughter’s respirator while a hurricane looms nearby. As she prepares for disaster, a vibrant host of characters—a decorated war veteran, her ne’er-do-well father, her octogenarian downstairs neighbor—bring new meaning to the phrase “it takes a village.”
Free and open to all.
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
