CURTAIN CALL: Focusing on male butts and genitalia

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CURTAIN CALL: Focusing on male butts and genitalia

POSTED: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

Theater is frequently criticized for its apparent detachment from the world it depicts, but People’s Light & Theatre is looking to change that. As part of its Community Matters series, the company is offering four staged readings that foreground the contemporary concerns of audiences. The series opens with Dispatches from (A)mended America, a documentary play tackling the issue of race in America. In the wake of Barack Obama’s election, former company member Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and Brandt Adams journeyed through the Southeastern United States to conduct interviews about modern racial identity. The work that results questions whether the inauguration of the nation’s first black president impacted race relations at all.

Mon., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., People’s Light & Theatre, 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, 610-644-3500, peopleslight.org.

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