Company One’s Hype Man: a break beat play
Thu, Apr 08
|Virtual event
This newly reimagined version of the Elliot Norton Award-winning play by poet and playwright Idris Goodwin follows a rapper, a beat-maker, and a hype man on the verge of making it big when the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager shakes the interracial hip-hop trio to the core.
Time & Location
Apr 08, 2021, 7:00 PM – May 06, 2021, 7:30 PM
Virtual event
About the event
Called “Sharply directed, incredibly well-acted, and absolutely of-the-moment” by WGBH’s Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen, Company One’s asks: who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice? This newly reimagined version of the Elliot Norton Award-winning play by poet and playwright Idris Goodwin () follows a rapper, a beat-maker, and a hype man on the verge of making it big when the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager shakes the interracial hip-hop trio to the core and forces them to navigate issues of friendship, race, and protest.How We Got OnHype Man: a break beat play
was developed by Goodwin with Company One Theatre.Hype Man: a break beat play
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