‘Is This a Room’ Review: Formally Daring Docudrama Comes to Broadway
Consider “Is This a Room” a ripped-from-the-headlines tale that pries beneath the ink, ratcheting in so close to the events in question that their particulars fall out of focus. What’s under Satter’s microscope aren’t the facts, but their cosmic resonance and mundane imprints on the body: sweat behind the knees, a gentle but persistent cough, conscience, power, the provenance of truth.
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‘Is This A Room’ Puts Reality on Stage
Reality has become a tricky, increasingly-elusive concept. With heavily-edited “reality” television, overly-curated social media profiles, and politically-minded accusations of “fake news,” the definition of what counts as “reality” is hazy at best. Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Tina Satter, puts this debate center stage by using an FBI interrogation transcript as the […]
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In ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Santiago-Hudson Builds a Memorial for the Forgotten
In 1983, in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker, wrote: “We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, […]
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