Field Trips
FEBRUARY 2024: Viewed Origin, an American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history.
JANUARY 2024: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage’s play “Intimate Apparel” tells the story of a 1905 successful African American seamstress who makes revolutionary undergarments for an array of women – from high-society socialites to enterprising ladies of the night. Her business, innovative skills, and utter discretion are much in demand, but at 35, her personal life has taken a backseat. “Intimate Apparel” explores her forbidden relationships with an Orthodox Jewish fabric vendor, her privileged and struggling clientele, and a long-distance suitor who will profoundly change her life.
Spring 2022: Theatre
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
By Lorraine Hansberry
A story about a man named Sidney, his pitfalls within his personal life, and struggles in the Bohemian culture of 1960s Greenwich Village. From the author of A Raisin in the Sun.
Spring 2022: Theatre
CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC
By Claudia Rankine, Adapted by Stephen Sachs
This powerful and fast-moving stage adaptation fuses theatre, music, movement, and video imagery. These are snapshots, vignettes, and a meditation on the acts of everyday racism. This play speaks to those remarks, glances, seeming slips of the tongue — those “did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just say-that slurs” that happen every day — all this, and the larger incidents that become national firestorms.
As Rankine writes, “This is how you are a citizen.”
Fall, 2022: Theatre
Sweat
By Lynn Nottage.
Lynn Nottage born November 2, 1964, is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She was the first (and remains the only) woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. Nottage is also the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She is currently an associate professor of playwriting at Columbia University and an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory.
CTTT Tucson member, Victor Bowleg, played Evan.
In an eastern Pennsylvania bar, we see American factory workers vulnerable to economic changes, racial confrontations, and a rapidly diversifying population. Dramatic and powerful. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Fall 2022: Film
"The Woman King is a 2022 American historical epic film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies. It is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Dana Stevens, based on a story she wrote with Maria Bello. The film also stars Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and John Boyega.