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Harry Smith (left) and Ian Merrill Peakes in "The Body of an American." Photo by Alexander Ilziliaev.
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THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (Wilma): War lives in all of us

Christopher Munden January 17, 2015 2 Comments

Did anyone anywhere actually believe that being photographed would take away the soul, or is that the kind of ethnocentric nonsense we need good foreign journalism to counter?

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Lance Coadie Williams and Zainab Jah in Wilma Theater's THE CONVERT. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
Reviews Theater

THE CONVERT (Wilma/Woolly Mammoth): Shining a light on colonialism

Christopher Munden October 18, 2013 No Comments

Colonialism is Pygmalian writ large: one culture trying to civilize another. In Danai Gurira’s melodramatic THE CONVERT, a priggish preacher (Irungu Mutu) in 1895 Rhodesia (present-day…

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