Over our forty-eight seasons the list of writers, performers, directors, and designers that have premiered their work on our stages and moved on to have great impact and impressive careers is long. SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR A NEW SEASON OF INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, AND BOLD NEW PLAYS.ĪMERICAN FAST 3 FROM THE CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS One of the joys of attending City Theatre is meeting fresh new talent who will be the future of the arts in America.

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This essay analyzes selected passages from Ti difé boulé that explicitly incorporate Vodou songs, prayers, and terminology to show how Trouillot provocatively deploys oral sources of historical narrative and memory. Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s first book, Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti (1977), exposes the foundational role of Haitian Vodou and the Kreyòl language in Haiti’s Revolution (1791-1804).

Mind song by Donna Swanson