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Seeing the show in film format doesn’t change the story, but it does change the perspective…The audience is present in the studio while the group records, sitting on the side nodding along to the beat.

The work clearly feels of the moment, arriving amid the high-profile trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin…The dark irony, [Playwright] Goodwin explained, is that this piece had been in the works for years and was debuted by Company One in 2018.

Production Dramaturg Jessie Baxter sat down with Playwright Idris Goodwin to chat about the newest addition to his break beat cycle, finding source material from friendships, and the role of artists right now.

Songs have been used as a form of social and political protest since the country’s founding.

From The Last Poets to “When the Revolution Comes” to Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow.”