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Sep 3, 2018 · Directed by Niegel Smith at the Flea Theater, Geraldine Inoa’s bracing and intense new play “Scraps” is about lives cut short by police violence, and the cataclysmic harm those killings do ...
Six, to be exact, and his newest, “Scraps,” a play by Geraldine Inoa, launched July 6 at Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood. Directed by Steve Walker-Webb and set in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood three months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, “Scraps” bills itself as “a frequently ...
There are many reasons why playwright Geraldine Inoa’s words have been called " passionate ," " bracing ," and " sharp ." Her writing evolved from a history of trauma, and theater has allowed her to speak up in all of the ways she couldn't when she was young. Another is that Inoa, the recipient of the inaugural Rhimes Unsung Voices ...
Sep 4, 2018 · September 4 th, 2018. Geraldine Inoa and Gracie Gardner have a lot in common. Both are young writers who are relatively self-trained (neither chose to pursue an MFA) and who go back and forth between the worlds of theatre and television. Both women are also the recipients of very prestigious awards, The Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission and ...
Aug 24, 2018 · Geraldine Inoa explores the traumatic aftermath of a police killing in Scraps. Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement came to prominence after a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, there has been a rash of searing plays about how law enforcement victimizes African American men (Pass Over at Lincoln Center Theater, Kill Move Paradise at the National Black Theatre, Harlem Stage ...
Posted on August 30, 2018 by The Flea Theater. Geraldine Inoa, playwright of Scraps. Being color brave is the centerpiece of Scraps. This urgent way of talking about race is not only refreshing but it’s necessary—the absence of honesty is what prevents human beings from achieving growth. Scraps is color brave by treating its characters ...
Jul 28, 2019 · Geraldine Inoa's "Scraps" and Dionna M. Daniel's "Gunshot Medley" explore pain in the fight for control over black bodies in America and demonstrate exciting new directions in African American ...
