Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down
Playwrights Canada Press · Print & ebook · April 5, 2022
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- Who it’s for
- Two plays place revenge and cyclical violence beside a theatrical response to anti-Blackness.
- Themes
- Cyclical violence, Revenge, Healing through expression
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Plays by Women
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An explosive epic that examines the cyclical nature of violence, Is God Is follows twin sisters who undertake a dangerous journey to exact revenge upon their father at the behest of their dying mother. What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play-pageant-ritual response to anti-Blackness in America. It is a challenge to us all: to heal through expression, expulsion, and movement.
Revenge and Ritual
Two plays place revenge and cyclical violence beside a theatrical response to anti-Blackness.
Come here for
- Twin sisters’ dangerous journey to exact revenge on their father
- A play-pageant-ritual response to anti-Blackness in America
Expect
- A dying mother’s request sets the sisters’ journey in motion
- Expression, expulsion, and movement as paths toward healing
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 78% |
|---|---|
| American Plays | 42% |
| Plays by Women | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Plays by Women
- Authors
- Aleshea Harris
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Published
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cyclical violence · Revenge · Healing through expression
- Reading lane
- African American Plays