Banned Plays (2012 - 2014)
Producer: Border/Arte
Photography: Kira Olson
Banned Plays was created as a critical-artistic response to the dismantling of the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson, Arizona in 2012. Each month, a group of diverse artists, scholars, community members came together to read play with controversial themes and/or that had been censored in the public sphere. We chose plays that highlighted subjects and communities in struggle, favored playwrights of color, and that spoke to issues of race, gender, coloniality, sexuality, and anti-capitalism. Each play was opened by a local musician or musical group, and all proceeds donated to local arts organizations.
Readings by playwrights include: Amiria Baraka, Miguel Pinero, Griselda Gambaro, Aimee Cesaire, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Saracho, Alfred Jarry, Cherrie Moraga, and others.
Producer: Border/Arte
Photography: Kira Olson
Banned Plays was created as a critical-artistic response to the dismantling of the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson, Arizona in 2012. Each month, a group of diverse artists, scholars, community members came together to read play with controversial themes and/or that had been censored in the public sphere. We chose plays that highlighted subjects and communities in struggle, favored playwrights of color, and that spoke to issues of race, gender, coloniality, sexuality, and anti-capitalism. Each play was opened by a local musician or musical group, and all proceeds donated to local arts organizations.
Readings by playwrights include: Amiria Baraka, Miguel Pinero, Griselda Gambaro, Aimee Cesaire, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Saracho, Alfred Jarry, Cherrie Moraga, and others.
