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Race needs to be talked about openly and immediately. That’s the straightforward message of Code Switch 7, a brand-new theater company founded by the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) seven African American students: Renee-Marie Brewster, Anthony Gaskins, Kelley Green, Faith O. Imafedon ’07, Richard Scott, Charles Settles, and Lindsay Strachan. Under the mentorship of Professor Robert Scanlan, they will be performing their debut show at 2pm on Sunday, February 7 at Club Oberon...
...them to be black, the show consists of completely original work that includes rap, gospel, and dance, as well as more traditional forms of theater—but above all, it’s intended as a cathartic entry to a dialogue with an audience that Code Switch 7 feel is long overdue...
...first observation was that there was not a thing in common among these people apart from race,” remarks Scanlan on first meeting the students, Yet one of the main missions of Code Switch 7 is to evoke the individual—and highly personal—matter of dealing with racial issues. The common experience of being black at the A.R.T. provided them with an initial starting point. “It’s really isolating, because our class is very homogenous and we’re such a minority,” Brewster says...
...reminded that most people sometimes go to grocery stores instead of eating out every night. I noticed another Blippy member getting joshed about how often charges showed up from a particular bar. He bantered back that to avoid the appearance of a drinking problem, maybe he should switch to cash...
Down by three team points going into the court switch, the atmosphere at Barnaby Courts darkened for Harvard, as its four-game winning streak seemed in jeopardy...