Presented as a part of Poetic License 2018: Reclamation
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Poetic Theater Productions’ 8th annual celebration of non-commercial, non-traditional love featuring poetic and theatrical remixes, re-imaginings and riffs by more than ten incredible poets and playwrights responding to traditional sonnets, love poems, and social justice speeches of the past. Inspiration poems and newly developed pieces are presented side-by-side. This year’s theme of Love, Redefined: RECLAIM explores the use of art in the act of reclaiming our land, our bodies, our voices, our spirits, our love and our joy.
Featuring new work by Yadira de la Riva, Tanaya Winder, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Ryan F. Johnson, Catherine Weingarten, Jenny Pacanowski, Everett Cox, Maurice Decaul, Ish Islam, Raquel Almazan, Craig muMs Grant, Becca Travis, Mickey Bolmer, Jason Bayani, and more.
Inspiration pieces by María Félix, Marie Howe, E. E. Cummings, Jeff Chang, Angela Davis, Halsey, and more.
featuring Adam Wennick, Sam Cooper, Colista Turner , Jenny Pacanowiski, Everett Cox, Raquel Almazan, Becca Travis, Pooya Mohseny, Monique A Robinson, Ish Islam, Jevon Nicholson, Jason Bayani, Jennifer Gil, Olivia Nice, Tori Ashley Matos, Aya Aziz, James Edward Becton, Ianne Fields Stewart, and more.
With pieces directed by Andrew Willis-Woodward, Dontonio Demarco, and Rebecca Martinez