"In theatre, people do that all the time. There’s always going to be somebody who wants their own sense of justice, especially with this. They have their own sense of justice that explains if someone else’s is true. Speak for me, speak to me. I want you to tell me who did what. We don’t know who did what within those individual moments. Who was right? Who was wrong? Whatever that means. It’s not, for lack of a better term, that black and white."
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On people projecting certain ideas onto theater in “Dael Orlandersmith on ‘Until the Flood’” in The Interval (2018 Feb 1)
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