‘Darker Face’ begins Essential’s New Play Festival

Published July 9, 2010

‘Darker Face’ begins Essential’s New Play Festival
Essential Theatre’s 12th annual festival of new plays begins tonight with Darker Face of the Earth , which features a 20-actor cast directed by Betty Hart. When I interviewed playwright/poet Rita Dove in January, she explained how the play re-envisions Oedipus on a slave plantation: When I began working on the play, I was trying to understand what it would be like to not know who your mother and …
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