
Until The Flood
4 (1) · Contemporary Drama, Poetry & Spoken Word
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith performs the European premiere of her poetic and revelatory play.
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Overview
In 2014, African American teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson. In this urgent and gripping drama, based on real-life interviews with Missouri residents in the aftermath of the shooting, Dael Orlandersmith portrays the many faces of a community rallying for justice, and a country still yearning for change.
Critic reviews
Painful accounts of racism injected with wry humour
Unshowy theatre, but an anger simmers beneath its beating heart
Dael Orlandersmith transforms into her characters, dispassionately inhabiting their reactions to the shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white policeman
It's a staggering performance by Orlandersmith, who inhabits each of the eight different characters
Poet, performer and playwright Dael Orlandersmith takes a powerful look at a divided America
Pieced together, and all performed by the utterly compelling Orlandersmith
Extraordinary exposé of racial tensions
A largely successful exercise in documentary theatre. Yet the script does sometimes seem to wander down irrelevant paths