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For more information, please visit: www. The story also fits in with the creative collaborations we have experienced so far, or endeavour to work on. Zindzi: I was really drawn to all of those things.
But also the Greek nature of it. I love Greek tragedies in the way that they deal with epic proportions β of violence, sex, premonitions and fate. And they are always about families and the domestic. For Aleshea to put a Black lens on that is super clever. When you read the play, you can really feel it. Sometimes the letters are all over the page.
And that might be a provocation to go into some deep emotional state. Aleshea gives the actors choices β really bizarre, big choices β which you might not instinctively make on your own.
Shari: Aleshea gives a reader as close as possible to a theatrical experience through the page. She encourages the reader to use their imagination. Zindzi: The play is a mash-up of Western and Greek tragedy, but in a new, fresh take because it features the Black experience.
