The Bitter Game
Opening Night: January 6, 2017
Closing: January 9, 2017
Theater: The Public Theater
A solo performance charged with pain, poetry, and laughter, The Bitter Game blends verse, prose and “shit-talkin’” into a stirring commentary that begs the question: what does it mean to survive while Black in America? Wallace explores the question of police agency and excessive force, the ripple effects of trauma in communities of color, and the value of Black lives in this country.
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January 8, 2017
They are instructions to commit to memory, essential tools in a young man’s defense system: Keep your head up. Keep your eyes forward. Keep your ego down. The audience for The Bitter Game — Keith A. Wallace’s high-impact performance piece at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival — is asked to repeat these directions again and again. They are, after all, words that might make the difference between living and dying.
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