linked to this in the newsletter this week, but also want to signal boost it here. it's a wild story about art and institutions and erasure and reproduction, and Robbie Saenz de Viteri's essay is both measured and absolutely excoriating: https://t.co/RyOjD4ue5S
The inter-tribal sketch comedy troupe @1491s with a show at @pac_nyc #BetweenTwoKnees” takes audiences on a fast-paced ride through a dark history. The play about #NativeAmerican history explores the effects of systemic oppression in bold ways. #woundedknee@CBSNewYork
For a decades-long career that only continues to grow and find new depths, the judges have awarded an #ObieAward for Sustained Achievement in Directing to Eric Ting (@tingericting). 👏
You already know Bobby Wilson from Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls. He and Native comedy troupe The 1491s also wrote “Between Two Knees,” a play now in Seattle
I spoke with @Bobbydues and director @tingericting about the play…and a whole lot more
https://t.co/BlN7TcHHhk
The playwright Lloyd Suh, whose “The Far Country” is running now in New York, uses a contemporary lens to show “the way in which memory becomes hereditary because of the way it lives in the body, the way it lives in the family.” https://t.co/CR0wtOp5jp
"Between Two Knees, a dark yet hilarious take on the oppression of Native Americans, is at Yale Repertory Theatre through June 4. The play was created by the comedy troupe The 1491s, writers and actors of the hit FX show "Reservation Dogs." https://t.co/VI0RugUw1M