🎭🎬👏🏿❤#ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlTheaterGeeks🤓 I'm ecstatic about @marcusgardley 's explosive play "The House That Will Not Stand" being developed into a movie! I am fascinated with New Orleans history and culture - especially related to Black experiences, social practices, race and class - so I was drawn to this story. The off-Broadway production at the @nytw79 in August was my best live theater experience in 2018 and one of the most spirit-rousing, provacative plays I have ever seen: www.nytw.org/show/house-will-not-stand/ ___________________ From @shadow_act & @deadline: "Set in Faubourg Treme in New Orleans 1813, the stage production is loosely inspired by Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba that examines the fascinating, mostly unknown, lives of the free women of color who became millionaires within the system of plaçage (the common-law marriages of white men and black Creole women) and fought against racial oppression pre-Civil War." Read more: www.deadline.com #TheHouseThatWillNotStand #marcusgardley #placage #NewOrleans #CreoleCulture #FreeWomenofColor #ShadowAndAct #Blackfilms #Louisiana #Haiti #Africa #BlackPlaywrights #BlackTheater #Blackhistory #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlMovieGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrBYGFml8Bu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q6zipj32onyo
